There is no silver bullet to successful developer platforms. However, it is important to understand that the main goal is to enable developers. This is in line with the core jobs of a platform team mentioned in the recently published CNCF Platforms White Paper.

However, reality for many platform teams means they rarely get to focus on those jobs. Their backlogs grow exponentially with the speed of development in the CNCF ecosystem; they are often understaffed; and they risk focusing too much on technologies vs. capabilities for their end-users.

This talk will start from the product perspective, giving examples of discovering high-level capabilities that focus on the Jobs-to-be-Done of end-user developers. From there, we span the arc to building highly integrated platforms that deliver such value in a user-friendly way by betting on established or to–be-established standards of our community following practical examples based on technologies already available in our ecosystem.