Articles #
Here we provide a repository of the latest and greatest blog posts and articles all about Internal Developer Platforms (IDP). Wrote an amazing piece and like to have it included? Submit a pull request!
2025 #
- What are golden paths? A guide to streamlining developer workflows Mallory Haigh, Workshop host @ Platform Engineering
- 3 platform engineering predictions for 2025 Luca Galante, Core contributor @ Platform Engineering
2024 #
- Hype to Reality: Platform engineering wins in 2024 Luca Galante, Core contributor @ Platform Engineering
- Top 10 platform engineering tools to use in 2025 Sam Barlien, Platform Engineering Community Manager
- Combining practical Platform Engineering with Crossplane and ArgoCD Jonas Hecht, Solution Architect at Codecentric
- Platform engineering is the industrialization of software development Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
- Building an Internal Developer Platform: 4 Essential Pillars Ritesh Patel, Co-Founder & VP of Products at Nirmata
- How to Define Engineering Standards Sam Nixon, Head of Product at Roadie
- Platform engineering: Best practices in “Vendor engineering” Jordan Chernev, Senior Technology Executive
- Get Certified in Platform Engineering, Starting Aug. 6 Todd R. Weis, Journalist
- Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Daniel Bryant, Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso
- Your engineering organization is too expensive Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
- CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs Robert Mitchell, Author
- The role of infrastructure teams in the platform engineering era Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
- Building a Platform Team at a 153-Year-Old Company Jennifer Riggins, Journalist at TNS
- How to build your platform engineering team Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
- PlatformCon: How Spotify Manages Infrastructure with GitOps Joab Jackson, Senior Editor at TNS
- Platform Engineering Dies in 4 Weeks Kaspar von Grünberg, Founder and CEO of Humanitec
- Why 2024 will be the year of the Platform Orchestrator Sören Martius, CEO at Terramate
- Unveiling the secrets of a successful journey: Mercado Libre’s Internal Developer Platform Juliano Marcos Martins, Senior Technical Manager at Mercado Libre
- Creating Infra Using Backstage Templates, Terraform and GitHub actions Sagar Parmar, Sr. SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
- Decoding golden paths: The highway for your developers Atulpriya Sharma, Sr. Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
2023 #
- WTF?! Internal Developer Platform vs Internal Developer Portal vs PaaS Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
- How to design your repository structures to nail platform engineering Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
- Port vs Backstage - Choosing Your Internal Developer Portal Vaibhav Gupta, Sr. SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
- Taking the Product Approach to Building Platforms Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
- Unlocking the Basics of Port Ubaid Ansari, SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
- How to Fail at Platform Engineering? Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
- Mastering Platform Engineering with Kratix Nitin Naidu, SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
- Starting Platform Engineering Journey with Backstage Vaibhav Gupta, Sr. SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
- Decoding Workload Specification for Effective Platform Engineering Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
- Platform Orchestration: an industry game-changer? Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO and Co-founder at Hunmanitec
- Platform Engineering 101: Get Started with Platforms Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
- 9 Steps to Platform Engineering Hell Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
- DevOps to Platform Engineering: How We Got Here? Vishal Biyani, Founder and CTO at InfraCloud Technologies
- Platform Engineering Reduces Cognitive Load and Raises Developer Productivity Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
- Bringing together FinOps, DevOps, and platform engineering Ajay Chankramath, Head of Platform Engineering at Thoughtworks North America
- State of Platform Engineering Report Vol 2 Humanitec
- Platform orchestration, Technology Radar Volume 29 Thoughtworks
- AI is changing the future of platform engineering. Are you ready? Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
- Shift Down to the Platform, not Left to the Dev Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
- Platform engineering maturity model: what we learned from our survey of ~300 orgs Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
- Platform Engineering: What’s Hype and What’s Not? Tommy McClung
- Build Your IDP at Light Speed with a Platform Reference Architecture Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
- The Modernization Imperative: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead Richard Seroter, Director of Outbound Strategy and Engagement at Google
- PlatformCon 2023: Bigger and Even Better Aeris Stewart, Community Manager at Humanitec
- Pave Golden Paths with Platform Engineering Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
- How to scale enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption Turja Narayan Chaudhuri, Assistant Director , Cloud PracticeAssistant Director, Cloud Practice at EY
- Step One to Successfully Building Your Platform: Building It Together Lee Ditiangkin, Director of Product / Engineering at Nvidia
- 7 core components of an Internal Developer Platform Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
- How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
- Platform Engineering Is Not about Building Fancy UIs Kaspar von Grünberg, Founder and CEO at Humanitec
- Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them Aaron Erickson, Co-Founder and CEO at Orgspace
- UX on Platform Engineering Fernando Villalba, Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec
- What Is Platform Engineering? Role, Principles & Benefits James Walker, Founder at Heron Web
2022 #
- Key findings from implementing Backstage for more than 100k developers Taras Mankovski, CEO at The Frontside Software
- Sunrise - Zalando’s Internal Developer Platform Henning Jacobs, Executive Principal Engineer at Zalando
- Why we advocate for workload-centric over infrastructure-centric development Susa Tünker, Product Manager at Humanitec & Score
- Hitting the right level of abstractions when building an Internal Developer Platform Jon Skarpeteig, Tribe Lead Global Platform at Signicat
- The Challenge of Cognitive Load in Platform Engineering: A Discussion with Paula Kennedy Paula Kennedy, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso
- Good Platform Engineering: What It Is and How to Make It Work For You, Fernando Villalba, Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec
- Platform Engineering: Creating your Internal Developer Platform (Part 2), Fernando Villalba, Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec
- The Internal Developer Platform Revolution: what every CTO should know Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
- How Low-Code Platforms Can Help Cloud Native Developers) Vinothini Raju, CEO at gopaddle
- How GE burned $7B on their platform (and how to avoid doing the same) Steve Pereira, CEO at Visible Value Stream Consulting
- Why it is worth investing in Product Management for Internal Developer Platforms Aaron Erickson, Co-founder and CEO at Orgspace
- DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
- Is Platform Engineering putting an end to DevOps and SRE? Paolo Martinoli, Technical Writer at Mia-Platform
- What is Dynamic Configuration Management Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
- What is a Platform Orchestrator Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
- Whose cognitive load is it anyway? Paula Kennedy, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntasso
- Platform Engineering 101: all you need to know to get started Paolo Martinoli, Technical Writer at Mia-Platform
- 5 tips for implementing an Internal Developer Portal in your company Paolo Martinoli, Technical Writer at Mia-Platform
- The Six Stages of Internal Development Platforms Sid Palas
- What is platform engineering? Luca Galante
- Why putting a pane of glass on a pile of sh*t doesn’t solve your problem Lee Ditiangkin
- DevOps MUST Build Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Viktor Farcic
- Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform Javier Turegano
- Internal Developer Platform on AWS Daniel Li
2021 #
- Enter the Abattoir - Building a la carte gitops tooling Stefan Kolesnikowicz
- How we want to help to solve the four core IT problems by introducing the NoOps platform How NoOps/IDP can help to solve the core IT problems Cezary Olborski
- DevOps Engineer — Do you know who you want to hire? Problems with DevOps Engineer role definition Cezary Olborski
- Testing in Infrastructure as Code and why Terraform may not be the best option In this article, Maciej Raszplewicz shows how to write tests in the Infrastructure as Code world Maciej Raszplewicz
2020 #
- How to Build Internal Tooling to Improve Your Team’s Shared Knowledge Stuart Corbishley explains how to build internal tooling to improve your team’s shared knowledge. Stuart Corbishley
- Why GitHub Built Their Own Internal Developer Platform In this blog-post GitHub CTO, Jason Warner, explains why and how GitHub built their IDP.
- Advocating for a Product Mindset within Platform Teams and How We Do It at HelloTech (Part 1) The Hellofresh engineering team explains why an IDP makes sense and how to get yours. Samantha Coffman
- The Rise of Internal Developer Platforms Chris Stephenson dissecting DevOps and why Internal Developer Platforms are a necessary consequence. Chris Stephenson (Humanitec)
- Puppet Releases Its 2020 State of DevOps Report In this blog-post InfoQ summarizes why IDPs are becoming a trend. Hrishikesh Barua (Stealth Mode Startup)
- Why Zalando Built Their Internal Developer Platform In this blog-post Jan Löffler explains why and how EUs biggest online retailer built their IDP.
- Effective storytelling for internal platform teams Rebecca Murphey explains effective communication for internal stakeholders. Rebecca Murphy
- Why Sport1 Built Their Internal Developer Platform Paolo Garri, Sport1 CTO, explains why and how Sport1 built their IDP.
- Platform Engineering Wichon explains the ins and outs of platforms.
- Highlights from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 Now IDPs are becoming a trend. A successful conference and an exciting future Ara Pulido
- KubeCon NA 2020 Key Takeaways: Platforms, Safety, and End Users Ambassadors DevRel team explains why IDPs are everywhere and what KubeCon taught them. Daniel Bryant
- Your Internal Developer Platform Sucks Veteran United's platform veteran Alan Barr explains what you can do right now to come closer to your perfect IDP. Alan Barr
- Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance Statistical analysis on how you can relate engineering velocity to business outcomes. Shivam Srivastava, Kartik Trehan, Dilip Wagle, and Jane Wang
- Applying product management to internal platforms How to product manage Internal Developer Platforms.
- The 3 keys to scaling enterprise devops use Understand how IDPs help you scale DevOps.
- The Rise of Platform Engineering Nick Daigler
- My perfect AWS and Kubernetes role-based access control and the reality Great technical post about difficulties with making own role-based access control Maciej Raszplewicz
- What does it mean to have a good configuration for your infrastructure? Cezary Olborski about quality of infrastructure configuration Cezary Olborski
2019 #
- Auth0 Internal Dev Tools: Unleashing Engineering Potential In this blog article, Jorge Fatta from Auth0 explains how to unleash engineering potential. Jorge Fatta (Auth0)
Older #
- The Joy of Internal Tools Learn more about the joy of internal tools from Slack. Greg Pelly & Mark Christian (Slack)
Other Resources #
- The Equal Experts Digital Platform playbook The folks of Equal Experts who have build plenty of IDPs share their insights on how to build.