Lightning Talk: Letsgo: The Ultimate Platform CLI
Lightningat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 17:15· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1·
summary
SeatGeek builds letsgo, a platform CLI written in Go that packages golden paths into a binary and uses native tools like the AWS CLI, Vault, Argo, GitLab and Slack. It exposes ~75 focused subcommands (examples: letsgo app rollback, letsgo login, letsgo <repo>, letsgo data store postgres credentials with -d-json) and runs ~55 pre-flight checks (43 auto-fixable), auto-updates every three hours, supports JSON output and Bubble Tea UIs, records telemetry, and sees 30,000 commands per week and 2,000 PRs from 60 contributors.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Let's Go CLI
- 1:02Why build a platform CLI
- 2:03Key features
- 3:48Popular commands
- 5:33Success factors
- 8:02Automatic updates
- 9:27Documentation and UIs
- 9:47Telemetry and metrics
