Don't Create the 15th Standard - Learn to Collaborate

Explore how AWS collaborated with the Eclipse Foundation to extend the open source Devfile specification in this 20-minute conference talk from All Things Open 2023. Discover the benefits of collaboration over creating new standards when building internal services for customer-facing products. Learn how AWS enhanced the Devfile specification to support more use cases and simplify authoring, enabling customers to test Amazon CodeCatalyst using existing environment specifications. Gain insights into how this approach allows AWS engineers to leverage public support channels, focusing more on core service development and less on proprietary specifications. Presented by Richard Boyd from Amazon Web Services, this talk offers valuable lessons in open source collaboration and efficient development practices.

Don't Create the 15th Standard. Learn to Collaborate - Richard Boyd