Increasing Developer Velocity and Satisfaction Through Automation

Discover how Grupo Boticario leverages Backstage, Crossplane, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes to streamline developer workflows in this 15-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2023. Explore the company's journey through technological transformation, growing from 500 to 1,600 team members in just three years. Learn about the challenges faced during the COVID pandemic, including difficulties in hiring skilled professionals and bottlenecks in infrastructure provisioning. Uncover the innovative solution implemented to automate common service provisioning, dramatically reducing process time from five days to a maximum of 20 minutes. Gain insights into how this automation strategy has increased developer velocity and satisfaction while addressing the complexities of evolving architecture and security requirements.