Wednesday
Room 6
11:40 - 12:40
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Bulding a dedicated platform for frontend developers at NAV
The even the best container-based application platforms like NAIS are inadvertently better suited for microservices and more traditional backend applications, often leaving much to be desired for single page applications that have their own unique challenges.
At the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) we have over 100 product teams running 1.600 applications on our application platform, 400 of which are frontend applications. Most of them written in React or Next.js, but other frontend frameworks is still in existence as well.
These applications does not get the benefit of our Prometheus monitoring, automatic SQL-database creation, cluster network security policies and many other features available from our application platform and they often have to do the heavy lifting of build their own micro-frontend architecture, monitoring, testing and much more.
At NAV we have perfected our container application platform for the better part of a decade. Along the way we have started a dedicated data platform (NADA) and since 2022 we have started a new team dedicated towards building platform services for our frontend developers to give them the best tools to build and run their frontend applications.
As far as we know, NAV is the first government agency in Norway to build a platform specifically for frontend application and we are super excited to share how far we have come 🚀
Hans Kristian Flaatten
Platform Engineering at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) responsible for the NAIS platform. NAIS is an application platform built to increase development speed by providing our developers at NAV with the best possible tools to develop and run their applications.
Previously Chief Consultant and DevOps Practice Lead for TietoEVRY where I drove culture and competency building for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud Native practices internally and for customers in public government, telecom, banking and insurance sectors.
Open Source, DevOps, and Cloud Native evangelist. Member of the Node.js Foundation where I manage test and release of official Node.js versions and the official Docker Image for Node.js with 10M+ downloads.
Organiser of DevOps Bergen, Bergen NoSQL User Groups, and Co-Organiser of the DevOps Days Oslo Conference. I speak at various other local, and national, user groups and conferences on Open Source, open data, Cloud Native, and other new and exciting technologies and practices.
Andreas Nordahl
I'm a developer with a passion for building stuff that works for people. Currently, I'm building platform services to enable frontend engineers at NAV.