Building an Internal Developer Platform
Step-by-step guide to designing and building an internal developer platform (IDP) that improves developer productivity, self-service capabilities, and platform engineering best practices.
Building an Internal Developer Platform
Step-by-step guide to designing and building an internal developer platform (IDP) that improves developer productivity, self-service capabilities, and platform engineering best practices.
What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
An Internal Developer Platform is a self-service layer built on top of infrastructure and tooling that enables developers to independently provision resources, deploy applications, and manage services without needing deep infrastructure knowledge or waiting on a platform team.
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