After 10 years of DevOps, a reality check is needed: asking every developer to master Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and security is unrealistic. Platform Engineering proposes a different approach: centralizing this complexity in an internal platform.
The Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
An IDP is a set of tools and services that abstract infrastructure complexity for developers. A developer should be able to deploy an application to production with a single command or click, without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Backstage (created by Spotify, now a CNCF project) has become the reference framework for building IDPs.
Measurable benefits
Companies that adopted Platform Engineering report: 60% reduction in new developer onboarding time, 4x increase in deployment frequency, 75% reduction in infrastructure tickets, and significant improvement in developer satisfaction.
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About the author
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Alexandre MARTIN
Lead Architect, ACCENSEO
AWS and Azure certified cloud architect with 12 years of experience. Alexandre helps enterprises design and migrate to resilient distributed architectures.
