Practical guide to agent native platforms

As agents become part of the delivery workflow, we need to rethink what a good platform looks like. What does developer experience mean when the user is sometimes a machine?

In this talk, we’ll look at how to build platforms that work for both humans and agents. Why standardization and clear paths matter even more, how reducing cognitive load translates into clearer systems, and how built in guardrails make this safe to use in practice. We’ll see practical examples and demos you can take back to your own platform.

5 pitfalls of building developer platforms

Everyone wants to build developer platforms, but not everyone succeeds. What pitfalls can you avoid on your journey of empowering your developers? Join this ignite talk to learn what signs to look for and what anti patterns to avoid when building internal develop platforms!

DevOps in Real Life, A How-To

With the DevOps revolution we suddenly find ourselves with autonomous teams who can take full ownership and not only develop features but also follow up on their usage, put them in production and fix them when they break. Without operations, the developers suddenly need to care about things such as logging, metrics and container orchestration. How can we get our developers spend more time on building their product and less time on all the tooling?

To solve this, Meltwater has formed a platform team that creates a paved road for their developers! In this presentation they want to share their success story of how they enable their developers to be both DevOps and productive. They will show not only what, but also how this is done.

How we revolutionized developer experience with 3.5 Platform Engineers

As a small team there is a lot of leverage to be gained from using cloud native projects, but the task might seem daunting and something that you need to have a very large organisation to have any use of. This couldn’t be further from the truth! Join this case study and learn how Jessica and her team of three and a half Platform Engineers revolutionized the developer experience for 30 developers at Kognic with the help of cloud native projects.

Benefits:
We hear a lot of stories and case studies from the large tech companies with hundres of people working on platform and internal tooling who show a very complete setup. I often hear that “We’ll never get that far” or “They can do that, they have X number of developers”. I want to show that you don’t need a large team to improve the developer experience with cloud native projects. We are currently an organisation with <40 developers and by sharing our story I hope to encourage others to start somewhere and to improve their developer experience with the help of cloud native projects.

Outline:
What is our vision with Platform Engineering
- Reference Daniel Bryant KubeCon EU 2022 Golden Path
What state did we start in?
- Challenges (scaling, building features to stay in business, tech debt, young devs)
What steps did we take?
- Remove manual work to free up time and unblock devs (external-dns, cert-manager)
Big impact changes for dev productivity (argo-cd and gitops)
Lessons Learned

Your platforms matter more than ever with AI

Without a clear strategy your agentic coding will accelerate fragmentation! Different tools, inconsistent environments and ad hoc processes will compound into chaos at machine speed. But with a qualitative internal platform, standardized workflows and paved roads, AI becomes a multiplier for quality and consistency instead of risk.

At the same time, each developer will likely be responsible for more software than ever before. As output increases, cognitive load must decrease. That means less variability, fewer bespoke setups and stronger defaults. The complexity of the systems must go down even if the volume of code goes up.

Internal developer platforms are no longer a productivity initiative. They are a prerequisite for succeeding in the AI era of software development!

Join this session to get the blue print strategy for accelerating agentic efficiency with internal platforms!