1.
Have you built
your platform yet ?
Haggai Philip Zagury
DevOps BP, GL & TL

2.
Open thinking and open
techniques ideology - driven by
Open Source technologies
My Solution driven approach is based
on hands-on and deep understanding
of Operating Systems, applications
stacks software languages and
frameworks, Networking, Cloud and
Cloud Native solutions.
Haggai Philip Zagury
DevOps BP, GL & TL

3.
Developer
Portals

4.
Developer
Portals?

5.
A year ago …

6.
By the end of this talk (you should)
Hopefully you get tips on how to build / improve your platform

7.
Onboarding❓
Before we called it that I
that onboarding was
related to planes … 😉

8.
Onboarding❗
Before we called it that I
that onboarding was
related to planes … 😉
This has become a very
long, yet important phase
of adding a contributing
member(s) to the team …

9.
Microservices “The answer
to all our prayers” 😉
● We encouraged “polyglotism”
● Gave Freedom of choice
● Lack of governance in price of speed
● There is no documentation /
Very poor documentation
The result of the freedom of choice ?

10.
Multi-cloud “The 2nd answer
to all our prayers” 😉
● We encouraged hybrid-cloud /
multi-cloud …
● Gave Freedom of choice
● Lack of governance in price of
speed
● There is no documentation /
Very poor documentation
The result of the freedom of choice ?

11.
Multi-cloud “The 2nd answer
to all our prayers” 😉
● We encouraged hybrid-cloud /
multi-cloud …
● Gave Freedom of choice
● Lack of governance in price of
speed
● There is no documentation /
Very poor documentation
The result of the freedom of choice ?

12.
Digital nomads
Hybrid remote workers
Independent Contributors (IC)

13.
Independent contributors …
Digital nomads
Hybrid remote workers
It’s old news for the corporates
which are spread out anyway.
Independent Contributors (IC)

14.
Digital nomads
Hybrid remote workers
It’s old news for the corporates
which are spread out anyway.
Covid epidemic made SMB’s
work remotely, sync differently!
Independent Contributors (IC)

15.
It has become a BAD Joke
● Development time
● Assessment isn’t accurate

16.
Developer
Platform!

17.
Platform Engineers
+
Dev Portal(s)
==
Developer platform
Developer Platform❗

18.
What is a platform engineer ?
Platform Engineer >> Cloud Ecosystem
Platform
Engineer
DevOps

19.
What is a platform engineer ?
How does it differ from SWE / SRE
SRE
DevOps
SWE
PE

20.
What is a platform engineer ?
How does it differ from SWE / SRE
SRE
DevOps
SWE
BE Infra
PE
Business logic
Automation & Collaboration
Site(s) Stability
Build the
developer platform

21.
Incremental developer platform
Technique

22.
Incremental developer platform
Technique
ticket-driven platform
operating model
👎
self-service platform
operating model
👍

23.
Self-Service
Think of “Online Shopping” models 😉
- Enable developers to get access to:
- Cloud accounts
- Setup resources
- Documentation standards
- Teamples
- Share reusable patterns

24.
One Stop Shop
Information Center
Customizable

25.
Developer Portals
/ Platform❗
Platform Engineers
+
Dev Portal(s)
==
Developer platform

26.
Cloud Native | Dev Platform
R&D Leaders in Israel - which have already chosen
Backstage as their developer platform
Ron Barbash Yaniv Katz

27.
R&D Leaders in Israel - which have already chosen
Backstage as their developer platform.
Some of them have already seen
their ROI
- Reusable templating
- Access to Accounts
- Creation of various resources
- Access to pipelines & information
Cloud Native | Dev Platform

28.
Building for
Developers Happiness
Suzanne Daniels
Cloud Native | Dev Platform

29.
Dev Portal(s)
Data Driven -> We've built
silos of information

30.
Dev Portal(s)
We've built silos of information - R&D, QA, QE

31.
Dev Portal(s)
We've built silos of information - Big Data & ML

32.
Dev Portal(s)
Production processes

33.
Dev Portal(s)
Operational Data

34.
OpenTracing

35.
Pluggable design
After your catalog is full, you
can extend data (collect and
index / link to data source)

36.
SW Catalog
A centralized inventory of all
your microservices.

37.
SW Catalog
A centralized inventory of all
your microservices.
Visualize dependencies
between services

38.
Kafka monitor
Status of queue
In a data driven
organization …
Cope with traffic
…

39.
Best practices
> Templates

40.
Best practices
> Templates
> Scaffolding e.g aws
resource

41.
Best practices
Template
Scaffolding is priceless
nowadays …
And each building has a
different scaffold !

42.
Custom plugins
Were going to build
a few plugins for
backstage

43.
Developer platform
Technique
ticket-driven platform
operating model
👎
self-service platform
operating model
👍

44.
An Internal Developer Platform, or IDP, is
a self-service layer that allows
developers to interact independently
with their organization’s delivery setup,
enabling them to self-serve
environments, deployments, databases,
logs and anything else they need to run
their applications.
Internal Developer platform

45.
What developer portals/platform solve ?
1. Onboarding
2. Self Service Portal for developers
3. A place we will find
○ Best practices
○ Walkthroughs
○ Credentials (way to get
access to common roles)
○ Policies
4. Understanding what’s available
(without human intervention)

46.
More about Platform Engineering
BackStage by spotify
- backstage.io
- demo.backstage.io

47.
More about Platform Engineering
BackStage @spotify
https://blog.container-solutions.com/how-developer-experience-portal-backstage-solved-spotifys-complexity

48.
The employee journey has changed

49.
Thank you!
Haggai Philip Zagury
DevOps BP, GL & TL
So, Have you built your platform yet ?