Crossing the Chasm: The Journey of The New York Times IDP from Conception to Early Majority
Talkat Platform Engineering Day NA 2024 · on Tuesday, 2024-11-12· at 13:30· Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G·
summary
The New York Times builds an internal developer platform that onboards a service to Dev in 10 minutes (security manual gate slows full automation), runs on Kubernetes with multi‑tenant clusters by environment, and deploys via GitOps using Argo CD; observability uses OpenTelemetry, secrets use Vault, pipelines use Drone, and templating uses a custom NYT Helm chart plus customize. An operator auto‑provisions tenant namespaces, an MVP launched during Maker Week, GA target was 2023, and adoption pushes into the early‑majority in 2024.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to the platform
- 2:22Core platform architecture
- 5:32Onboarding and delivery
- 14:47Platform as a product
- 22:37Crossing the chasm
- 23:40Lessons learned and Q&A
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