Melbourne Cloud Native Development Summit 2025

This session will explore how it’s building a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly environment while navigating the realities of legacy systems, regulatory demands, and the need for speed. This session will set the stage for the day’s focus on pragmatic cloud-native adoption, platform thinking, and engineering leadership at scale.

• How to design a flexible enterprise architecture powered by cloud-native principles
• The role of internal platforms, developer enablement, and service ownership in scaling adoption
• Lessons learned in balancing innovation, governance, and resilience across critical systems

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Modern software delivery demands more than just speed — it requires thoughtful tooling, resilient architecture, and empowered teams. In this panel, engineering leaders share how they’re navigating complexity, making tooling decisions, and shaping engineering culture to support scalable, sustainable development.

• How do you balance rapid iteration with long-term reliability, security, and performance?
• What’s guiding your decisions when selecting and integrating tools like container orchestration, service meshes, or developer enablement frameworks?
• How are you encouraging teams to take ownership of cost, uptime, and delivery quality?
• How is the role of engineering leadership evolving to support greater autonomy and technical accountability?

An interactive session where attendees participate in deploying a cloud-native application using Kubernetes, focusing on best practices for scaling and management.

Rolling out a data product strategy at scale can trigger serious concerns from architecture and infrastructure teams—especially around provisioning overhead. In this session, we’ll explore how EBOS automated the deployment of data products using Python and Terraform, easing operational burdens and enabling innovation at scale.

• Identifying early friction points in enterprise-wide data product strategies
• Using Python and Terraform to automate repeatable provisioning tasks
• Addressing architecture concerns around scalability and oversight
• Unlocking momentum by removing manual bottlenecks from the data pipeline

Growing fast doesn’t have to mean growing big. In this session, we’ll explore how a lean engineering team is scaling operations and delivering great customer outcomes by leveraging a modern, serverless tech stack, smart automation, and AI agents. From infrastructure choices to developer workflows, this session breaks down the practical systems and decisions that keep things simple, efficient, and future-ready.

• How a small team manages infrastructure using serverless architecture and AWS-native tools
• Ways we’ve built a lightweight CI/CD pipeline to maximise autonomy and reduce handoffs
• How tech stack integration helps reduce toil and supports cross-functional ownership
• What early experiments with AI agents are unlocking for our team’s focus and velocity

As organisations adopt cloud-native architectures, platform engineering is becoming essential to developer velocity, system reliability, and cost control. This panel explores how internal platforms are evolving to support modern development, reduce complexity, and embed best practices into everyday workflows.

• What makes an internal developer platform effective for cloud-native teams?
• How do you build self-service capabilities that accelerate delivery without compromising quality?
• How can platform teams strike the right balance between developer freedom and standardised governance?
• How are teams applying FinOps principles to help developers manage cloud resources more responsibly?

Delegates will chose from a list of pertinent peer-to-peer discussion topics focussing on evolving and emerging trends, techniques and technologies

Insights into the importance of observability, and how to implement effective monitoring strategies in cloud-native environments.

A lively debate on the merits and drawbacks of monolithic and microservices architectures in today's development landscape.

In this high-energy closing session, we’ll test the temperature of where cloud-native is really heading. Through interactive multiple-choice questions, we’ll challenge assumptions, call out contradictions, and uncover what’s helping—and what’s hurting—teams trying to build fast, securely, and at scale.

• What’s currently your biggest bottleneck when shipping cloud-native software?
• Where should platform engineering teams be investing their time in 2026?
• What’s the biggest threat to cloud-native success over the next 2 years?
• Which trend is most likely to reshape your stack by 2027?