Empowering high-performing engineering teams begins with building them a home - it’s a place where they can find their tools, connect with their teammates, and innovate at speed without circumventing standards. Every day, developers imagine, create, and deliver value. It’s a beautiful process, really. It hurts to think that it’s ruined by the complex and chaotic ecosystem of tools, platforms, documents, corporate policies, and bureaucratic processes that impede every developer from doing their job.

Perhaps it’s time to think about building a developer portal. But will it really solve these issues, or will it be just another abandoned tool in your bucket?

In this talk, we’ll explore the benefits as well as the challenges of having a developer portal. We’ll also compare open-source products like Spotify’s Backstage with a custom-built platform. Learn how to get started, understand what it takes to provide self-service to your cloud and let your engineers do what they are good at: solving problems.