Kai Geißelhardt & Volker Zöpfel

Let developers develop again

What if you could shrink your time-to-production from 90 days to just one? See how the Schwarz Group built the platform to do it.

Let developers develop again
#1about 4 minutes

Comparing historical and modern software development approaches

The evolution from slow, limited early computing to today's complex, multi-technology landscape creates new challenges for enterprise developers.

#2about 2 minutes

The challenge of migrating the Lidl online shop to the cloud

The team was tasked with moving a large, on-premise online shop to a cloud-native environment within two years, despite having a release-driven culture and limited cloud knowledge.

#3about 5 minutes

Building a strategy to accelerate enterprise development

To increase speed, the organization established a common direction, created a shared language, broke down silos into project teams, and automated infrastructure setup.

#4about 5 minutes

A platform for self-service infrastructure and environments

A live demo showcases the One Developer Journey (ODJ) platform, which allows teams to create subscriptions, products, and provision runtime environments on different hyperscalers.

#5about 4 minutes

Automating code repositories and deployment pipelines

The platform automates the setup of code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and security scanning tools, enabling direct deployment from commits.

#6about 3 minutes

Enabling cloud-agnostic architecture for easy migration

The platform's hyperscaler-agnostic design is demonstrated by migrating an entire application from Azure to Google Cloud in just a few hours with minimal changes.

#7about 3 minutes

Simplifying dependencies with a shared service catalog

A central service catalog allows teams to discover, consume, and automatically connect to shared platform services and internal APIs without manual configuration.

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