Keynote: PlatformOps: It’s all about Developer Experience

The talk focuses on the core values of a great developer experience on Kubernetes based on the speaker's multi-decade career building application development tools and working with one of today’s most thriving open source developer communities, Spring. The speaker emphasizes the need for PlatformOps teams to build, run, and manage platforms that lead with developer experience.

• Reduce complexity without sacrificing flexibility
• Shift outcomes left without shifting the burden left
• Ensure consistency and security without giving up agility

The speaker shares his experience working with VMware and the Spring acquisition, highlighting the importance of understanding both the operations team and the application developers' needs. He emphasizes the need for operations teams to make a self-service platform and treat developers as customers. He also stresses the importance of reducing complexity, shifting outcomes left, and ensuring consistency and security without giving up agility.

Kubernetes has reached mainstream adoption, with 5.6 million developers using it worldwide. But, organizations are still challenged to make developers productive using Kubernetes. PlatformOps teams are now being asked to build, run, and manage platforms that lead with developer experience.This requires embracing a PlatformOps philosophy that treats developers as customers while meeting their organization’s policies. VMware understands this transition building on 20 years of stewarding the most popular Java framework, Spring, which fundamentally changed the enterprise Java landscape on the back of a superior developer experience. That history allows us to identify patterns and attributes that we believe are critical to delivering a better cloud native developer experience on Kubernetes.In this talk we’ll focus on three things PlatformOps teams should focus on:Reducing complexity without sacrificing flexibilityShifting outcomes left without shifting the burden leftEnsuring consistency and security without giving up agilityJoin Ben Hale, VMware Senior Staff Engineer and Technical Lead for VMware Tanzu® developer experience, as he shares the core values of a great developer experience on Kubernetes based on his multi-decade career building application development tools and working with one of today’s most thriving open source developer communities, Spring.Click here to view captioning/translation in the MeetingPlay platform!