Platform Engineering

# Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is about building products for internal developers.

## What is a Platform?

**Self-Service Infrastructure**

Developers provision what they need without tickets.

**Golden Paths**

Opinionated defaults that handle 80% of cases.

**Internal Developer Portal**

Discover services, deploy apps, view metrics—all in one place.

## Platform Capabilities

**Application Deployment**

One command from code to production.

**Observability**

Automatic metrics, logs, and traces.

**Security & Compliance**

Built-in, not bolted on.

**Data & Storage**

Easy access to databases, queues, caches.

## Platform as Product

**Treat Developers as Customers**

- User research

- Clear documentation

- Responsive support

- Iterative improvement

**Measure Success**

- Time to deploy

- Developer satisfaction

- Mean time to recovery

- Service reliability

## Tools

- Kubernetes operators

- Backstage (Spotify)

- Internal UI frameworks

- Service catalogs

Great platforms amplify engineering productivity 10x.