Nebraska.code() 2026: Beyond the YAML Spaghetti: Building App-Centric Systems with Radius

Modern cloud-native development is often less about writing code and more about “YAML plumbing.” Between IaC templates, secret management, and Kubernetes manifests, the actual application logic gets buried under layers of infrastructure configuration. Why does our tooling force us to think about VPCs and subnets when we just want to connect a service to a database? This session introduces Radius as an app-centric approach to cloud-native systems, helping developers escape the complexity spiral and refocus on what actually matters: the application itself.

This talk will be given at Nebraska.code() by Staff Engineer Alec Harrison of Lean TECHniques. To learn more, click here.