Name: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
Start: 2025-06-16T11:30:00+0900
End: 2025-06-16T12:00:00+0900

16-17 June
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Monday June 16, 2025 11:30 - 12:00 JST

Level 1 | Orion

Our hero, a running app in a K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They’re serving end users, but the value of the cloud is not realized. Hero’s devs toil on custom integrations, deployment is brittle and slow, and security and governance are HARD. Hero longs for a developer platform with consistent and repeatable system building blocks.

It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero’s transformation from a lost and confused app to one built on a solid foundation that abstracts away complexity and promotes innovation. In their fifth KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they build an Internal Developer Platform, enabling the devs to have self-service access to widely used system capabilities. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and build a platform before the session time elapses?

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Whitney Lee

Developer Advocate, CNCF Ambassador

Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who is passionate about cloud native tools. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can catch her lightboard show... Read More →

Monday June 16, 2025 11:30 - 12:00 JST
Level 1 | Orion

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any
Presentation Language English

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025

Viktor Farcic

Whitney Lee

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