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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.

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Platform Engineering

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.

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What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?

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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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