Keynote: From Cloud-Native Apps to Cloud-Native Platforms - Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer

This keynote, presented by Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer at Syntasso, addresses the challenges faced in platform engineering when building cloud-native platforms. The speaker discusses how issues like slowed delivery and blurred ownership arise not from effort or tools but from architectural shortcomings. The talk emphasizes the need for durable platforms that rely on effective infrastructure orchestration, platform orchestration, and application choreography. By analyzing the pitfalls of collapsing these layers for convenience, the session illustrates how this leads to fragile systems as organizations grow. Ultimately, the keynote advocates for applying the same architectural discipline that has successfully shaped cloud-native applications to the platforms themselves, encouraging clear boundaries to enhance resilience and scalability.