Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb
summary
Argues that consoles should be dumb frontends that discover API schemas and render forms, not contain logic; uses Port to auto-generate forms from Kubernetes CRDs created with Crossplane, pushes manifests via simple GitHub Actions and lets Argo CD apply them so a SQL claim becomes a real AWS database. Demo wires CRD → UI → git push → Argo CD apply and mostly works live, with a brief demo glitch but resources deploy end-to-end.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Consoles shouldn’t hide complexity
- 3:37Demo: dumb console approach
- 10:18Demo architecture
- 13:13Backend infrastructure
- 18:38Q&A
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