Join us at the Capital Factory for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on September 26, 2024!🎉

We have special guest Lakmal Waruswithana from WSO2 LLC. Lakmal Warusawithana is the Senior Director of Cloud Architecture at WSO2 with a strong background in open source, cloud, and DevOps technologies!

We will be meeting at Capital Factory! The address is 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701. We'll be in the "Antone's Room" on the 16th Floor.

Park in the Onmi garage for just $8.00! Street parking will still be an option. More information on parking here: https://www.capitalfactory.com/parking/

Thank you to Capital Factory for sponsoring Kubernetes Austin. Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Capital Factory membership, click here.

Going Platformless in the Era of Building Platforms by Lakmal Warusawithana

In the rapidly evolving tech landscape, building and maintaining robust platforms has become both a necessity and a challenge for organizations. In this talk, I will share our experience of building an internal developer platform, highlighting the hurdles we encountered and the strategies we employed to overcome them.

In this session, Lakmal will discuss:

• The complexities and technical challenges faced during our platform development journey, including issues related to scalability, security, and integration.
• How we used cell-based architecture combined with technologies and tools such as Kubernetes, GitHub Action, API Gateway, Prometheus, Envoy, OpenSearch, Keda, eBPF, and -Cilium for service mesh management (and more), detailing the implementation processes, and best practices that enabled us to create a robust and efficient system.
• How we navigated through these challenges and the lessons learned, providing insights into our problem-solving approaches and decision-making processes.
• The critical expertise required and the significant resource investments involved, detailing the skills and knowledge necessary to implement and maintain such a platform.
• The benefits and practicality of choosing a platformless strategy, especially for organizations lacking the necessary in-house capabilities, and how this approach can streamline operations and reduce costs.