the.com/platform engineering
building the paved road so developers stop hacking through the jungle themselves.
means an internal team designs and maintains self-service infrastructure tools so product engineers can ship without begging ops for every server.
from emerged mid-2010s as devops promised developer autonomy but delivered cognitive overload; teams realized shipping code shouldn't require a phd in kubernetes.
core artifactthe internal developer platform, often called an idp
golden pathone blessed, opinionated way to deploy things
backlash cousindevops was supposed to remove the need for this
metric obsessionteams track developer time-to-first-deploy religiously
for instance
spotify backstage — open-sourced 2020, now the default idp framework everyone forks
netflix paved road — engineers pick sanctioned tools or own the risk themselves
humanitec — 2022-founded startup selling platform orchestration as a product