World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform

Bastian Heilemann , Bruno Margula

Zeiss united 6,000 developers without enforcing a single organizational mandate. Discover how their product-centric internal developer platform eliminated architectural fragmentation and drastically reduced engineering cognitive load.

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