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Internal Developer Platform

What is an Internal Developer Platform?

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a self-service toolset that provides both developers and the DevOps and other teams who support them with everything they need to build, deploy, and manage applications in a more streamlined and efficient way.

Unlike traditional infrastructure management, where operations teams handle all provisioning, orchestration, scaling, and maintenance of environments supporting the software development lifecycle (SDLC), internal developer platforms are built and maintained by platform engineering teams to accelerate developer productivity by automating manual tasks, promoting reusability, and eliminating complexity in the developer experience.

Platform engineering teams design IDPs to offer developers a centralized platform for accessing essential resources like cloud environments, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools. By integrating infrastructure as code

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Internal Developer Portal

Internal developer portals (IDPs) are valuable for their ability to accelerate software development pipelines by providing easy, on-demand access for developers to access the resources they need.

Today’s software development lifecycle (SDLC) is complex, supported by a vast array of platforms and resources.

In many software development organizations, developers need to navigate this world of tools, services, and documentation systems to access the APIs, infrastructure, or environments they need to build and ship products.

This complexity holds back developer productivity. In fact, research suggests that as much as 40% of developers’ time is spent on tasks that are not directly related to software development.

Many software development organizations leverage internal developer portals to minimize that number so that developers can ship new products and features as quickly as

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Platform Engineer

What is a platform engineer?

A platform engineer is an IT professional responsible for planning, creating, and implementing internal development platforms (IDPs) and golden paths (predefined workflows) for developers to easily access and use critical tools, infrastructure, and services.

In contemporary IT operations and development ecosystems, platform engineers are particularly influential because they innovate new robust, scalable, and streamlined platform solutions to enhance developer productivity. As technology advances at previously unseen speeds, platform engineers are an invaluable resource to help enterprises and their developers navigate and prosper in increasingly complex environments.

The role of a platform engineer has come into the spotlight with the rise of platform engineering, a discipline dedicated to designing and implementing unified and automated

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Platform Engineering

What is platform engineering?

Platform engineering is the practice of delivering and maintaining internal developer platforms and/or portals that provide a development team access to any resource needed to support software development work. Platform engineering teams consider the internal platform their “product” and the development team their “customers.” The top priority for a platform engineering team is accelerating developer productivity by creating a developer experience that eliminates friction and redundant manual work.

Why is platform engineering important?

High-octane development environments, agile methodologies, and talented developers are the driving forces behind innovation for today’s enterprises. However, developers can’t build applications at speed and scale in overly complex cloud environments and with suboptimal or inaccessible toolchains.

Without streamlined and simplified access

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