Engineering the Backbone: How We Built Our Internal Developer Platform
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, building and maintaining a robust internal developer platform (IDP) presents significant challenges. In this talk, Lakmal will share:
- WSO2’s journey in building an IDP, highlighting the technical and organizational hurdles of scalability, security, and integration, and how we addressed them.
- How we implemented a cell-based architecture and integrated tools like Kubernetes, Envoy, Argo Workflows, Prometheus, Fluent Bit, OpenSearch, KEDA, eBPF, and Cilium to deliver a scalable, secure, and observable platform.
- The importance of a unified console to manage the functionality of these diverse tools and how we made that a reality.
- The expertise and resource investment required to successfully build and operate a platform.
What we got wrong, the lessons we learned, and how we adapted to overcome those challenges.
Speakers
Lakmal Warusawithana is the VP and Distinguished Engineer at WSO2, with extensive experience as a Cloud Architect and Platform Engineer specializing in cloud-native technologies. With a proven track record in designing and implementing scalable platforms, he has been instrumental in simplifying enterprise development through modern infrastructure solutions. Previously, he served as Vice President of the Apache Stratos PaaS Project and co-founded thinkCube in 2005, where he led engineering, scalability, and service delivery for Collaborative Cloud Computing products tailored to telecom operators. A seasoned speaker, Lakmal has shared his expertise at major industry events, including ApacheCon, CloudOpen, QCon, JaxLondon, Cloud Expo, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and WSO2Con.