CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Platforms aren’t new, but intentional platform engineering is getting more widespread adoption. One area where organisations are investing heavily is the relationship between the “frontend” user interfaces that developers get value from (CLIs, portals, APIs) and the "backend" platform orchestration components that ops manage. What should you, as a platform engineer, expect from your investments on each side? Over time, maintaining a portal and your platform orchestration becomes an important cost. But don't fret! Your platform can (and should) manage this ongoing maintenance for you, allowing you to focus on what you care about: improving developer experience and extending platform capabilities. In this talk, Abby and Jorge will provide an overview of the challenges and solutions, and map this topic to the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model. You will learn what you, as a platform engineer, should be demanding of your platform orchestration tooling and your portal.