Choose Your Own Abstraction: Iterating on Developer Experience

Originally presented at KubeCon 2023.

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2. Rosemary Wang Choose Your Own Abstraction: Iterating on Developer Experience
3. The “Right” Platform Interface Infrastructure as Code Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization
4. The “Right” Platform Interface Infrastructure as Code Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization “I don’t want to learn it.”
5. The “Right” Platform Interface Infrastructure as Code UI / CLI Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization
6. The “Right” Platform Interface Infrastructure as Code UI / CLI “I can onboard to the platform.” Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization
7. Backstage - Day 0
8. What about updates?
9. The “Right” Platform Interface Infrastructure as Code GitOps UI / CLI Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization
10. The “Right” Platform Interface Infrastructure as Code GitOps UI / CLI “I can make changes with a familiar interface.” Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization
11. Argo CD - Day 2
12. Argo CD - Day 2
13. Escape Hatch Version Control Infrastructure as Code GitOps UI / CLI Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization
14. Abstractions…with Options Infrastructure as Code GitOps UI / CLI Lower Level Customization Higher Level Standardization