Natale Vinto
The internal developer platform and golden paths: Scaffolding for cloud-native development
#1about 3 minutes
The growing problem of developer cognitive load
Increasing complexity in software development leads to high cognitive load and reduced productivity for developers.
#2about 2 minutes
Key pillars of an ideal developer experience
An optimal developer experience focuses on reducing cognitive load, enabling a flow state, and providing fast feedback loops.
#3about 2 minutes
Introducing the internal developer platform (IDP)
An IDP is a platform built by a platform team to enable developer self-service with guardrails and best practices.
#4about 2 minutes
Defining golden paths and software templates
Golden paths are pre-architected, supported workflows for building software that enforce best practices, originating from a concept by Spotify.
#5about 1 minute
The evolving role of the platform engineering team
Platform engineers act as product managers, UX experts, and developer advocates for the internal platform they build and maintain.
#6about 3 minutes
Introducing Backstage as an open source IDP
Backstage is a popular open source IDP from the CNCF, with Red Hat Developer Hub providing an enterprise-grade version.
#7about 3 minutes
Demo: A tour of the developer hub portal
The portal provides a single pane of glass with a Tech Radar, learning paths, and catalogs for existing software and APIs.
#8about 3 minutes
Demo: Scaffolding a microservice from a template
A software template is used to automatically generate a new microservice, including its source code and GitOps repositories.
#9about 4 minutes
Demo: The integrated component view and plugins
The scaffolded component view centralizes access to pipelines, GitOps status, Kubernetes monitoring, and technical documentation via plugins.
#10about 3 minutes
Demo: Coding instantly with an in-browser IDE
Developers can launch a pre-configured, in-browser IDE like Dev Spaces directly from the component view to start coding immediately.
#11about 3 minutes
Understanding the structure of a software template
Software templates are defined using YAML files that specify input parameters, actions, and the UI layout via a catalog-info.yaml file.
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