How Millennium Bcp Leverages Radius To Empower Developer + Operator... Nuno Guedes & Jonathan Smith
Nuno Guedes, Jonathan Smith
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This talk, presented by Nuno Guedes from Millennium BCP and Jonathan Smith from Microsoft, introduces **Radius**, an open-source, cloud-agnostic **cloud-native application platform** designed to bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure provisioning within modern **internal developer platforms (IDPs)**. The core premise is that while many robust open-source tools exist for infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and compliance, there has been a significant missing piece: a unified, first-class **application model** that allows developers to reason about and interact with their applications as a cohesive entity, rather than a collection of disparate infrastructure components.
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This talk introduces Radius, a cloud-agnostic application platform that aims to fill a critical gap in internal developer platforms by providing a first-class application model. It demonstrates how Radius enables developers to define applications declaratively, abstracting infrastructure complexities, while empowering operators to enforce standards through 'infrastructure recipes.' Millennium BCP's real-world adoption provides compelling evidence of Radius's ability to significantly accelerate service delivery and improve dev-ops collaboration, moving towards their ambitious 'from 8 days to…