Despite the quality of modern cloud-native tools, the user experience for inner and outer developer loops are still radically different, which introduces friction and hampers developer productivity.

Development setups are app-centric, while production environments deal with deployments and tools required for operations teams to keep applications running. This session explores tools to simplify both side and improve developer productivity through a platform engineering and polyglot approach using a toolchain that:
Gives developers a standard set of app-level APIs to solve common distributed app challenges, using Dapr.
Equips developers and product teams with consistent, polyglot feature flags through OpenFeature.
Facilitates easy local development, outside of a Kubernetes cluster, with Testcontainers.

Attendees will walk away with a working demo showcasing a straightforward, lightweight and effective inner and outer dev loop, ensuring the seamless promotion of apps from dev to prod.