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