Cloud Platform Engineering

Video Summaries

A Journey To Modernizing a Regulated Cloud Control Plane

Pranita Praveen & Steven Borrelli KubeCon 2025 26 min

How Macquarie Group modernized their cloud control plane by migrating from traditional pipelines to a Crossplane-based architecture with GitOps principles. The solution provides continuous reconciliation, multi-cloud support (AWS, GCP, Azure), and automated policy checks on pull requests.

Crossplane ArgoCD GitOps Kubernetes Multicloud

Simplifying Multicloud Developer Experience

Brent Burgess (Macquarie) & Chris (AWS) AWS re:Invent 2025 19 min

Macquarie's DEXD (Developer Experience Daemon) platform built on Microsoft's Dev Containers. Reduces developer onboarding from days/weeks to minutes, provides pre-baked templates for AWS and GCP development, and enables one person to support thousands of engineers globally.

Dev Containers Developer Experience Platform Engineering MCP

Blog Series

Part 1: Creating Our Next-Generation Cloud Control Plane

Macquarie Engineering Blog Medium

Introduction to Macquarie's journey modernizing their cloud infrastructure. Covers the motivation for moving from traditional pipelines to a Kubernetes-native control plane approach.

Control Plane Architecture

Part 2: Argo Workflow Bots for Policy Validation

Macquarie Engineering Blog Medium

Deep dive into the "bot of bots" architecture using Argo Workflows for automated policy-as-code validation, compliance checking, and claim hydration on pull requests.

Argo Workflows Policy as Code Automation

Part 3: Streamlining the Developer Experience

Macquarie Engineering Blog Medium

How Macquarie optimized the developer experience with fast feedback loops, simplified claim specifications, and shift-left security and compliance controls.

Developer Experience Shift-Left Compliance