Make Workloads, Not Infrastructure

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Argues that teams should stop building infra and instead define a workload-first DSL that encodes microservices, databases, queues and jobs; criticizes Helm and raw Terraform as too low-level and brittle; proposes a single control plane that provides self-service, guardrails, autoscaling, logs, DR and preview environments; demonstrates Northflank as the example platform aiming to let developers request higher-availability Postgres or deployments without hand-editing 200 Helm vars.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:17Topic
3. 0:31Is Kubernetes harder today
4. 1:23Better abstractions
5. 2:08Building a factory
6. 2:46Do more with less
7. 4:08AWS
8. 4:43In a perfect world
9. 5:32Outro

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