Your IDP — Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Kyverno - is a chain of dependencies & every single link will break. When it does, your devs stare at a loading spinner & your platform investment becomes shelfware.

Nobody talks about this.
Every conf talk is about building golden paths & shipping plugins.
Nobody asks: what’s your Backstage DB backup strategy? When did you last rotate your Vault tokens? What happens to ArgoCD when GitHub returns 401s for 3 hours (it will)? An expired TLS cert took down all Git operations for an hour. Can your Crossplane providers recover from expired cloud credentials?

This talk is about the boring, unglamorous, career-saving work of keeping IDPs alive.

This hands-on workshop will introduce a single failure that cascades through your version control, portal, GitOps pipeline & ultimately - your confidence. Then we'll recover together. Real failure, real recovery — not just slideware & wishful thinking. This failure will haunt you all the way through lunch.