Tilt Your World! Lessons Learned in Improving Dev Productivity with Tilt

This talk delves into how to enhance developer productivity within complex distributed application environments, particularly in the Kubernetes ecosystem. The speakers demonstrate how to set up a developer environment that allows for seamless deployment of multi-component stacks, dynamic code refreshing, IDE integration for debugging, and the application of YAML configurations. They showcase how the Cluster API maintainers leverage tools like Tilt, Delve, and Helm to achieve this, offering a reusable model for other Kubernetes projects. The presentation covers key aspects of an effective development workflow: ease of setup, quick feedback loops, debuggability, and visibility. It highlights Tilt's capabilities in live code updates, remote debugging setup, and its unified UI for monitoring component health and logs, including integration with other observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus.