Bastian Heilemann & Bruno Margula
Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform
#1about 5 minutes
Understanding the scale and diversity of development at Zeiss
Zeiss supports over 6,000 developers across diverse sectors like medical technology and semiconductor manufacturing, creating unique challenges.
#2about 2 minutes
Addressing fragmentation and ownership challenges in a large enterprise
Key development challenges include fragmentation of tools and processes, defining ownership, and balancing generalization with specialization.
#3about 4 minutes
Adopting a platform engineering strategy for developer empowerment
The company's strategy involves creating a "factory platform" to streamline development and a developer portal to solve discovery issues.
#4about 2 minutes
Scaling knowledge and decisions with fleet management frameworks
Fleet management enables self-service, lifecycle tracking, and scalable decision-making through tools like ADRs and Wardley Maps.
#5about 2 minutes
Centralizing discovery and access with a developer portal
The Zeiss Developer Portal, built on Backstage, provides a single pane of glass for documentation, tech radars, and self-service interfaces.
#6about 4 minutes
Building specialized platforms for GenAI, data, and web
Instead of a single platform, Zeiss builds specialized platforms for GenAI, data analytics, and a web application platform with a MACH architecture.
#7about 4 minutes
The technical architecture of the multi-tenant web platform
The web platform uses Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for a multi-tenant, multi-region foundation and is managed as an internal product.
#8about 4 minutes
A success story of integrating micro-frontends into a CMS
Developers created React-based micro-frontends that non-technical authors can easily embed into the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) website.
#9about 3 minutes
Automating large-scale code migrations across the fleet
A dedicated software migration toolbox automates updates, such as migrating a UX library across 70% of projects in just three weeks.
Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Wilken GmbH
Ulm, Germany
Senior
Kubernetes
AI Frameworks
+3
Matching moments
01:32 MIN
Organizing a developer conference for 15,000 attendees
Cat Herding with Lions and Tigers - Christian Heilmann
04:57 MIN
Increasing the value of talk recordings post-event
Cat Herding with Lions and Tigers - Christian Heilmann
03:28 MIN
Why corporate AI adoption lags behind the hype
What 2025 Taught Us: A Year-End Special with Hung Lee
03:39 MIN
Breaking down silos between HR, tech, and business
What 2025 Taught Us: A Year-End Special with Hung Lee
03:15 MIN
The future of recruiting beyond talent acquisition
What 2025 Taught Us: A Year-End Special with Hung Lee
04:27 MIN
Moving beyond headcount to solve business problems
What 2025 Taught Us: A Year-End Special with Hung Lee
04:22 MIN
Why HR struggles with technology implementation and adoption
What 2025 Taught Us: A Year-End Special with Hung Lee
02:44 MIN
Rapid-fire thoughts on the future of work
What 2025 Taught Us: A Year-End Special with Hung Lee
Featured Partners
Related Videos
26:47Let developers develop again
Kai Geißelhardt & Volker Zöpfel
20:28Introducing a Digital Service Catalog for speed and scale
Bastian Heilemann & Akash Manjunath
28:09The AI-Ready Stack: Rethinking the Engineering Org of the Future
Jan Oberhauser, Mirko Novakovic, Alex Laubscher & Keno Dreßel
57:45Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!
Robert Hoffmann & Christian Denich
26:16Platform Engineering untold truths: is just an infrastructure matter?
Graziano Casto
23:03Forget Developer Platforms, Think Developer Productivity!
Robert Hoffmann
58:40Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?
Christian Strack
30:51The internal developer platform and golden paths: Scaffolding for cloud-native development
Natale Vinto
Related Articles
View all articles
From learning to earning
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Sunhat
Köln, Germany
Remote
€85-115K
Senior
Team Leadership
Software Architecture
AI-assisted coding tools
Qvest Digital AG
Bonn, Germany
Remote
Intermediate
Senior
Terraform
Continuous Integration
Cloud (AWS/Google/Azure)
Confideck GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Remote
Intermediate
Senior
Node.js
MongoDB
TypeScript
zeb consulting
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Junior
Intermediate
HTML
React
JavaScript
MARKT-PILOT GmbH
Stuttgart, Germany
Remote
€75-90K
Senior
Java
Angular
TypeScript
zeb consulting
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Remote
Junior
Intermediate
Senior
Cloud Architecture
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud (AWS/Google/Azure)
Hubert Burda Media
München, Germany
€80-95K
Intermediate
Senior
Node.js
JavaScript
TypeScript