Platform Engineering Essentials for Modern Teams: How Expert Platform Engineers Deliver High-Impact IDPs, Streamline DevOps, and Drive Organizational

By Todd Chandler

Platform Engineering Essentials for Modern Teams: How Expert Platform Engineers Deliver High-Impact IDPs, Streamline DevOps, and Drive Organizational Success

Struggling with fractured toolchains, perpetual firefighting, or stalled delivery pipelines? Platform Engineering Essentials for Modern Teams offers a proven playbook to transform your internal developer platform (IDP) from a maintenance headache into your organization's productivity engine.

Begin by securing executive buy-in and framing your IDP as a strategic product. You'll learn how to harness DORA metrics to build an ROI narrative that wins support, define the core capabilities, UI, APIs, workflows, RBAC, documentation, that every high-impact platform needs, and establish golden paths that steer developers toward consistent, reliable outcomes.

This book blends hard-won practitioner insights with up-to-date, battle-tested workflows, so you can:

Architect GitOps-driven, immutable pipelines and modular microservices or monoliths for rapid, safe deployments

Integrate Terraform, Crossplane, Argo CD, and Tekton into an automated stack that scales from single-cluster pilots to global, multi-cloud platforms

Embed security and compliance into every phase via policy-as-code, RBAC, SAST/DAST/SCA scans, and audit pipelines

Drive observability, resilience, and reliability with metrics, tracing, chaos engineering, SLOs/error budgets, and self-healing patterns

Cultivate adoption and continuous improvement through feedback loops, NPS surveys, strategic roadmaps, and community-driven inner-source templates

Filled with real-world case studies, and anti-patterns, you'll avoid common pitfalls like tool sprawl, poor UX, or low adoption, and learn how to balance speed with stability, central governance with federated ownership, and MVP focus with ambitious scale.

Whether you're a platform engineer, DevOps leader, or SRE, you'll gain the practical skills and strategic frameworks to deliver an IDP that accelerates developer velocity, fortifies reliability, and drives measurable organizational success.

Ready to empower your teams and elevate your software delivery? Purchase Platform Engineering Essentials for Modern Teams today and start building the platform that propels your business forward.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLPLKCCK
• ISBN13: 9798296948120
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"