Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - A Platform Engineering Journey

Explore a 22-minute conference talk that delves into the evolution from no-code to full-code approaches in platform engineering on Kubernetes. Learn how platform teams can navigate beyond YAML-based declarative configurations when building internal developer platforms (IDPs). Discover the challenges of maintaining complex enterprise platforms with hundreds of thousands of declarative lines, and understand the spectrum of solutions available between no-code and full-code implementations. Follow a real-world platform team's journey implementing Crossplane for an enterprise-grade infrastructure control plane, examining their transition from declarative no-code to Golang-based full-code solutions. Gain valuable insights into how this evolution impacts developer experience, testing methodologies, operational efficiency, and platform stability. Master practical lessons learned during this transformation that can be applied to your own platform engineering initiatives.