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Chapter 2.1 - How to Design a Developer Platform Without Crying (Too Much)

Platform Engineering Chapter Two

Designing an Internal Developer Platform sounds noble until you realize it’s not just slapping a UI on Kubernetes. This blog walks through how to actually design a scalable, friendly IDP using MVP principles, reference architectures, and the wisdom of people who’ve made all the painful mistakes so you don’t have to.

Chapter 1.5 - But What Does a Good Internal Developer Platform Actually Look Like

Platform Engineering Chapter One

You’ve got the ambition and a handful of CI pipelines. Now comes the real question, how do you turn that scattered tooling into a cohesive platform devs will actually use? This chapter walks through what matters most understanding workflows, assembling the right components, paving golden paths, and choosing tech that won’t betray you mid-quarter.

Chatper 1.4 - So You Want to Be a Platform Engineer (Do You?)

Platform Engineering Chapter One

Want to be great at platform engineering? Learn the tech. Learn the people. Learn how to make good decisions boring. That’s how you win.

Chapter 1.3 - DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering Walk Into a Cloud-Native Bar

Platform Engineering Chapter One

DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering often get lumped together, but they play very different roles in modern engineering teams. This post cuts through the confusion with a critical (and slightly sarcastic) look at what each actually does, where they overlap, and how they can work together without setting production on fire.

Chapter 1.2 - Why Platform Engineering Exists (aka How DevOps Became Everyone’s Problem)

Platform Engineering Chapter One

Spoiler alert! this is less a love letter to Platform Engineering and more a post-mortem of what happened when DevOps scaled beyond “two pizza teams” and became “three hundred Slack channels and a Terraform repo no one understands.”

Chapter 1.1 - Key Concepts (with Eye Rolls and War Stories)

Platform Engineering Chapter One

aka How we stopped worrying and learned to stop developers from YOLO-ing their infrastructure.

Notes on Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering Overviews

Understanding devs' pain points and building a compelling product is the only way to ensure adoption.