Choose Your Own Adventure - The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform

Embark on an interactive conference talk that transforms the complex journey of building an Internal Developer Platform into an engaging "Choose Your Own Adventure" experience. Follow an anthropomorphized Kubernetes application as it evolves from a struggling production workload plagued by custom integrations, brittle deployments, and security challenges into a well-architected solution built on solid foundations. Navigate through real-world decisions about CNCF projects and platform architecture as presenters Whitney Lee from Datadog and Viktor Farcic from Upbound guide you through their signature interactive format. Participate in live audience voting to determine the hero application's path toward achieving a developer platform that abstracts complexity, enables self-service capabilities, and promotes innovation. Discover how to leverage cloud-native technologies to create consistent and repeatable system building blocks while racing against the session clock to successfully build a comprehensive platform solution.