Explore the efficient delivery of cloud-native applications through developer platforms in this CNCF conference talk. Delve into the concept of applications in the cloud-native world, examining various application definition formats and their approaches. Investigate the role of supporting services like observability, identity, and data stores in application development. Learn about the emergence of developer platforms and platform engineering as solutions for integrating these components. Gain insights into building developer platforms based on the work of TAG App Delivery GitOps, Operator, and Platform Working Groups. Discover the importance of operators in enabling applications and platforms, including basic operator reconciliation, operator patterns, and popular frameworks. Examine the evolution of operators and their role in making platforms more product-like. Analyze the challenges in defining cloud applications and explore current and future approaches to application definitions in the cloud-native ecosystem. Read more