Stop Building Portals, and Start Delivering Workloads. For Realz
Talkat Platform Engineering Day 2025 - Europe · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 09:25· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F·
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Argues that internal portals become a fragile UI over a broken platform and instead promotes a delivered workload platform that actually runs in customer clouds. Claims Northflank powers 30,000 developers and performs 1.5M container deployments/month across 600 AS, and supports Kubernetes distributions like EKS AKS GKE and OpenShift. Describes concrete platform needs: UI/API/CLI/GitOps parity, preview→staging→prod workflows, backups, autoscaling, HA, observability, and multi-cloud portability.
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