Build a Better Developer Portal: Accelerate Deployments by Creating Your Golden Paths

The promise of DevOps was to increase velocity, but for many organizations, it has left developers drowning in complexity. Instead of focusing on business logic, engineers are now expected to be experts in YAML, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. This cognitive overhead is the primary bottleneck to innovation. Platform Engineering represents the next evolution, shifting the mindset to treat your internal platform as a product with your developers as the customers.

But a powerful platform is useless if it’s difficult to navigate. This is where "Golden Paths", the well-lit, paved roads for shipping software, become essential. In this session, we’ll explore how to design these Golden Paths and, most critically, how to make them accessible and self-service through an Internal Developer Portal (IDP). Learn how an IDP acts as the user interface for your entire platform, abstracting away the underlying complexity and enabling developers to scaffold, deploy, and manage their applications with confidence and speed.

Key Takeaways:

• How to shift from a tools-focused DevOps approach to a product-centric Platform Engineering mindset.

• A practical framework for designing "Golden Paths" that standardize and accelerate the path to production

• Why a Developer Portal is the essential UI to drive adoption and unlock the value of your internal platform.