Unleashing the Full Potential of IDP

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DEVOPS

Feb 22, 2024

About Speaker

Subhadeep Guin

Engineering Lead : Platform Whatfix

Subhadeep Guin is a seasoned Software Engineer whose journey in the tech world spans a decade. With 6.5 years at Huawei Technologies, 1.5 years at Fyno Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., and 2+ years at Whatfix, he has delved deep into the realms of technology.

Currently serving as a Technical Architect at Whatfix, where his team is the driving force behind the design and execution of Whatfix's SaaS platform. Previously, they wielded their skills as an architect and CTO for vbooky.com, leaving an indelible mark on India's e-commerce landscape with a client base exceeding 10,000.

His tech arsenal is formidable: from mastering Core Java to navigating the intricacies of JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS, Subhadeep is a maestro in crafting Java applications and platforms. Subhadeep’s proficiency extends to developing RESTful web services, designing Android applications, and fine-tuning performance through innovative methodologies.

With a knack for Agile FDD and Waterfall methodologies, coupled with a deep understanding of Spring, Hibernate, and more, he is not just a coder; Subhadeep is an architect of digital realms, shaping the future one line of code at a time.

About Host

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Co-founder and CTO, Amnic

Sathya is an experienced technologist with over two decades in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles (EV), and Distributed Systems. As the Co-founder and CTO of Amnic, he drives the development of a cloud Intelligence Platform, emphasizing efficiency, cost reduction, and reliability. Sathya's leadership spans roles at Ola Electric Mobility, Ola Cabs, Yahoo and many internet companies. With 11 patents in AI, EV, and Distributed Systems, he is committed to knowledge sharing and guiding industry thought leaders.

Summary of Podcast

In this podcast, Subhadeep from Whatfix shares his experience of building an IDP (Internal Developer Platform) at his current firm. Initially, his team faced challenges with an outdated infrastructure and disjointed development process. Recognizing the need for scalability, security, and DevOps practices, they began transforming their approach, eventually understanding the necessity of a full-fledged IDP. To create a complete pipeline, they started using API definitions as the source of truth and implemented code generation. The adoption of the IDP posed challenges, but the team focused on selling the benefits instead of mandating its use, eventually resulting in significant improvements in deployment time and frequency reducing from two months to multiple deployments per wee and real-time customer fixes. Additionally, the IDP aimed to provide feedback to developers using AI to review codes and promote cost optimization. Subhadeep expressed satisfaction with the positive impact the IDP had on their team, resulting in a direct return on investment.

About Amnic

Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform, helping businesses measure and rightsize their cloud costs. Amnic helps businesses visualize, analyze and optimize their cloud spends, in turn building a lean cloud infrastructure. Amnic offers out of the box solutions that help breakdown cloud bills and provide greater visibility and understanding into cloud costs along with recommendations to lower spends, alerts and anomaly detection.

Amnic delivers a wide range of features including K8s visibility, cost analyzer, alerts and custom reporting, budgeting, forecasting and smart tagging. DevOps and SRE teams rely on Amnic to deliver a simplified view into their cloud costs, allowing them to maintain governance and build a culture of cost optimization. Setup in 5-minutes and get 30-days of free trial.

Visit www.amnic.com to get started.

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