Sponsored Keynote: Crossplane - The Best Kept Secret in Platform Engineering

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Argues that platform teams should adopt a strict API mandate: Kubernetes and Crossplane become the required control plane, not a homegrown stack; Crossplane exposes APIs via small XRD YAML objects that map to real provisioning actions; case studies include a bank and an athletic company building internal platforms that delivered self-service, scalable infrastructure instead of ticket-driven ops. Claims this reproduces the control-plane mechanics that enabled AWS and that it materially speeds platform rollout.

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1. 0:00Crossplane and Platform Engineering
2. 1:04Amazon’s API Mandate
3. 3:12APIs enabled Amazon’s cloud
4. 6:29Modern enterprises messy
5. 7:142024 API Mandate for Platform Engineering
6. 8:45Building services with Crossplane

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