Platform Engineering: Building Internal Developer Platforms: Self-Service Infrastructure, Golden Path Templates, Portal Design, and Measuring Adoption

Stop Ticket-Driven Infrastructure. Build a Platform Your Developers Actually Want to Use. Modern engineering organizations are facing a cognitive load crisis. Developers are drowning in a sea of fragmented tools, complex Kubernetes configurations, and endless infrastructure tickets. The promise of "you build it, you run it" DevOps has turned into a massive bottleneck, slowing down feature delivery and burning out talented engineers. Platform Engineering: Building Internal Developer Platforms is your definitive blueprint for treating infrastructure as a product. This book moves beyond theory to deliver a concrete, step-by-step guide to building "Golden Paths" self-service infrastructure that abstracts away complexity without sacrificing team autonomy or security. What You Will Build & Master Inside: The Self-Service Mandate: Design reusable infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi) modules to eliminate ticket-driven environment provisioning. Developer Portal Architecture: Build a centralized, discoverable service catalog using Backstage, turning documentation sprawl into a streamlined UX. CI/CD & Progressive Delivery: Standardize automated pipelines, rollback mechanisms, and failure recovery as first-class platform capabilities. Baked-In Observability & Security: Scaffold new services with default logging, metrics, tracing, and role-based access control (RBAC) built right into the templates. Measuring What Matters: Instrument your platform to track DORA and SPACE metrics, turning usage analytics into actionable adoption roadmaps. Platform as a Product: Master the internal marketing, migration strategies, and UX principles required to handle resistant teams and drive organic adoption. Who This Book Is For: DevOps & SRE Teams: Ready to transition from reactive infrastructure support to proactive platform product engineering. Platform Architects & Tech Leads: Tasked with designing multi-cluster, self-service developer portals at enterprise scale. Engineering Directors & CTOs: Looking to reduce developer cognitive load, shorten time-to-market, and measure real engineering productivity. Turn your infrastructure bottleneck into an automated, self-service engine. Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to start building your Internal Developer Platform today.