Event short description max. 400 characters Many organizations mistakenly believe that simply adding Backstage to their infrastructure creates a true Internal Developer Platform. While it may offer a quick solution, Backstage alone isn't enough to achieve the full potential of platform engineering. Effective platform engineering goes beyond just the frontend (Backstage), and involves an effective platform backend as well.

It can be a challenge to build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). For many organizations, it is common to get bogged down in months of planning, and approvals, and waste incredible amounts of time and resources. It doesn’t need to be like that, however. Humanitec has recently open-sourced a framework to get you started in five minutes (for real). This includes the OSS workload spec Score, the Humanitec Portal, and the Platform Orchestrator, running on your private Kubernetes cluster on your machine.

Building platforms for automotive embedded systems may seem very different from those for high-frequency trading in FSI or secure government services. However, universal patterns distinguish top performers from the rest. After seven years of platform building and enabling rapid innovation, we've identified key insights. Join us in a conversation to explore how to create inspiring engineering environments that unleash their full potential and creativity.

Developing a container orchestration platform can pose a significant challenge, often deterring many due to its complexity, particularly when the team lacks the necessary expertise. Numerous decisions must be made when navigating through the multitude of CNCF-certified tools available to address similar challenges. This webinar highlights how a 105-year-old company built its Internal Developer Platform using entirely open-source tools from the CNCF.

In this webinar, Mallory will guide you through one of the essentials of platform engineering, your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will offer a clear, step-by-step approach to getting started, and then evolving your MVP into a robust, enterprise-ready solution.

Too many organizations make the mistake of slapping Backstage on top of their setup and calling it an Internal Developer Platform. This might be a quick fix, but Backstage alone is not your platform and it won’t deliver the results that platform engineering promises. Good platform engineering requires more than just the front end (Backstage), it requires a backend too.