Platform Engineering 01 - What Is Platform Engineering?
What platform engineering actually is, why it emerged, and how it differs from DevOps
Platform Engineering Fundamentals
Understanding the principles behind Internal Developer Platforms, golden paths, and developer self-service
Engineers and tech leads dealing with growing delivery friction, duplicated infrastructure work, or weak developer self-service.
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Platform Engineering 02 - Anatomy of an Internal Developer Platform
What actually goes inside an Internal Developer Platform โ the five planes, how they connect, and the build vs buy decision
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Platform Engineering 03 - Developer Experience as a North Star
Why developer experience should guide every platform decision, how to measure it, and the anti-patterns that kill it
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Platform Engineering 04 - Designing Golden Paths
How to design golden paths that developers actually want to follow โ principles, step-by-step process, and handling teams that go off-road
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Platform Engineering 05 - Infrastructure as Code for Platforms
Why IaC is the backbone of any platform, and how tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane compare when building self-service infrastructure
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Platform Engineering 06 - Developer Portals and Service Catalogs
How developer portals like Backstage bring order to the chaos of scattered docs, tools, and tribal knowledge
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Platform Engineering 07 - Platform as a Product
Why your internal platform needs product management, user research, and the voluntary adoption test
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Platform Engineering 08 - CI/CD at Scale
Why every team writing their own pipelines creates chaos, and how standardized templates fix it
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Platform Engineering 09 - Observability for Platform Engineers
How platform teams provide observability as a service instead of making every team build it from scratch
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Platform Engineering 10 - Security and Governance
How platform teams bake security into the golden path so developers get guardrails, not gates
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Platform Engineering 11 - Building a Platform Team
When to start a platform team, how to staff it, and how to avoid building an ivory tower nobody uses