Summary and the full transcript is available at: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-cloud-leaders-point-of-view/

(This podcast has been republished/updated to fix the broken Spotify episode)

Additional takeaways can be found here: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-kelsey-hightower/

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower), Principal Engineer and Staff Developer Advocate at Google, and a leading voice in the cloud native and Kubernetes space, talked with Ambassador Labs's Daniel Bryant about a range of subjects, including what shifting left and developer responsibility really means, promise theory and what developers really need to be successful, and developer empathy, or stopping the practice of "cart-before-horse" coding to get to the heart of what users want first.

Full transcript and summary https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-an-engineering-directors-point-of-view/

Crystal Hirschorn (@cfhirschorn), Director of Engineering - Infrastructure, SRE and Developer Experience at Snyk, shared some time with Ambassador Labs's Head of Developer Relations, Daniel Bryant, to talk about all things platform engineering and building control planes that “pave a path” for developers.

Summary and full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-platform-engineers-point-of-view/

Summary and full transcript -> https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-platform-builders-point-of-view/

The unicorns of the tech world generate a lot of buzz in the cloud-native landscape. But the workhorse users who adopt cloud-native technologies slowly where it makes commercial sense don't get quite the same level of attention. Weaving cloud-native technology, not just into legacy systems that deliver on a business's core mission, but also into risk-averse commercial organizations is no easy feat.

Founded in 2002, Veterans United Home Loans, is a leader in helping US military families purchase homes using Veterans Affairs (VA) loan services. Technology shifts have been slow and steady, focusing on stability, automation and making the loan process as easy as possible for customers. Alan Barr (@alanmbarr), Internal Developer and Security Platform Product Owner at Veterans United Home Loans, spoke at length with Ambassador's Head of DevRel, Daniel Bryant, about the company's 20-year journey and their steps into the cloud-native landscape.

Among other subjects, they covered technology adoption and getting comfortable with cloud native when using legacy systems in commercial settings, building the business case for investing in a developer platform, and defining the developer experience.

Summary and the full transcript is available at: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-cloud-leaders-point-of-view/

Additional takeaways can be found here: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-kelsey-hightower/

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower), Principal Engineer and Staff Developer Advocate at Google, and a leading voice in the cloud native and Kubernetes space, talked with Ambassador Labs's Daniel Bryant about a range of subjects, including what shifting left and developer responsibility really means, promise theory and what developers really need to be successful, and developer empathy, or stopping the practice of "cart-before-horse" coding to get to the heart of what users want first.

Summary and full transcript here: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-an-ecosystem-leaders-point-of-view/

While cloud-native development has not been adopted into production environments everywhere, it is an increasingly visible force, bolstered by a robust community, several widely adopted emerging standards, and increasingly cohesive tooling and platforms.

Ambassador's Head of Developer Relations, Daniel Bryant, recently sat down with Katie Gamanji (@k_gamanji), Senior Kubernetes Field Engineer at Apple, and the CNCF's former Ecosystem Advocate, to discuss these points as well as real-world, cloud-native implementations driven by business goals and the importance of both education and community in achieving critical mass.

Summary and full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-ctos-point-of-view/

Nicki Watt (@techiewatt) is the chief technology officer and CEO at OpenCredo, a software development consultancy with extensive experience in cloud-native development, and has been at the forefront of meeting these varied, cross-functional needs for a variety of companies across industries. Recently, she shared her experience with Ambassador's Head of Developer Relations, Daniel Bryant, to discuss everything from evolving cloud platforms to identifying opinionated ways to rein in the sprawl of an overwhelming number of ways to do things in a cloud-native environment.

S2E03: Cheryl Hung on Google DevEx, Cloud Native Development, and Infrastructure Challenges by Ambassador Labs

Full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-planes/developer-control-planes-a-platform-architects-point-of-view/

Summary and extended notes: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-kasper-nissen-from-lunar/

The concept of "shifting left" at scale in a fully cloud-native organization may sound futuristic to those just entering the cloud-native space. For cloud-native leaders, who have run Kubernetes in production for years, shifting left is well underway. Lunar, a startup challenger bank in the Nordics, is one such organization.

Kasper Nissen (@phennex), Lead Platform Architect from Lunar (@lunarbank), recently joined Ambassador's Director of DevRel, Daniel Bryant, to discuss Lunar's architecture, developer ownership of the life cycle, Lunar's approach to centralizing tooling, the build-versus-buy decision-making process, the developer control plane concept, and the challenges and benefits of being at the forefront of cloud-native fintech technology.

Mario Loria, Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) from CartaX, an electronic marketplace for private securities recently spoke with Daniel Bryant, Director of DevRel at Ambassador Labs. In a wide-ranging discussion they covered ground from the changing developer experience to the ideal role of SREs in a modern, cloud-native environment.

Full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-an-experienced-sres-point-of-view/

Summary and additional context: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-mario-loria-from-cartax/