Streamlining Developer Platform Design with Reference Architectures - Google Cloud Use Case

Explore a 15-minute conference talk on streamlining developer platform design using reference architectures, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Discover how to enhance productivity and improve the software development experience by reducing cognitive and operational burdens. Learn about successful implementations of reference architectures for developer platforms on leading cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift. Gain insights into separating application code from orchestration and operations concerns while maintaining the DevOps model. Understand how cloud-native reference architectures for Internal Developer Platforms enable operations teams to define and manage workload deployment within specific guardrails, while still providing developer freedom through abstraction and self-service. Explore strategies to remove stressors from product and platform teams, drive standardization, ensure security and compliance, and free up developers' time to focus on writing code that solves customer problems. Presented by Marco Marulli, Principal Delivery Lead II at McKinsey & Company, this talk offers valuable insights for platform engineers and developers seeking to optimize their development processes and platforms.