Explore tools and techniques for simplifying cloud-native application development and improving developer productivity in this 27-minute conference talk. Learn how to bridge the gap between local development and production environments by leveraging platform engineering and polyglot approaches. Discover how to use Dapr to enable developers with standard application-level APIs for solving common distributed application challenges. Understand the implementation of consistent and polyglot feature flags using OpenFeature. Gain hands-on experience in developing locally with these tools outside of a Kubernetes Cluster by utilizing Testcontainers. Enhance your understanding of streamlining both inner and outer development loops to reduce friction and accelerate the development process for cloud-native applications.