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.
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