DOWN with Shift Left – DevConf.US 2024

We’ve all had just about enough with shift left at this point, which means let’s shift all of our problems onto someone else. If therapy and cognitive load are the outcomes we aim for, then shift left is great.

Otherwise, shift left needs a rethink.

In this talk, Scott Rosenberg, Lead Architect at TeraSky’s CTO office, will rant about why shift left needs to ship out and introduce shifting down (the new and better version of shift left).

We’ll discuss how we can empower our platforms (which everyone is already building anyway!) to make decisions developers shouldn’t have to make.

By shifting the complexity to our intelligent platform with its nifty gadgets and gizmos – we can offload & automate all the things – such as security scanning policies (defined by security engineers!), generation of manifests, building and rebasing images (built by DevOps!), leverage policy languages and security prioritization frameworks like VEX to make our decisions and much more. So, for those of us left standing after it’s all been shifted onto our plates, come learn how to get down with the shifting––into the platform.