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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Oct 12, 2020

Improving Developer Happiness with GitOps

Lars Hesel Christensen , Basil Brunner

Centralized ticketing labyrinths destroy engineering productivity and stall feature delivery. Discover how a decentralized GitOps workflow condenses 22 manual API touchpoints into one automated pipeline, supercharging developer happiness.

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#1 about 7 min

Strategic business directions driving cloud integration

How ecosystems, omnichanneling, and cloud strategy enable modern development and partnerships.

#2 about 7 min

Technical and organizational challenges of exposing APIs

The manual coordination and infrastructural requirements needed to expose REST APIs securely.

#3 about 7 min

Designing a resilient API gateway architecture

Managing API discoverability, lifecycle, and deployments through a separated control and data plane model.

#4 about 12 min

Provisioning APIs through a GitOps workflow

Using a Git repository as the single source of truth for generating API configurations and validation checks.

#5 about 4 min

Empowering developers with automated deployment feedback

Providing rapid guidance in pull requests minimizes friction and transitions teams to a decentralized workflow.

#6 about 4 min

Future improvements for the self-service platform

Plans for fully automated approvals, legacy system support, and expanding self-service beyond APIs.

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