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

By Bernard Mallin

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFYV1PH7
• ISBN13: 9798193947103
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"