What is an internal developer platform? PaaS done your way

 By InfoWorld - 2021-03-08

Description

Organizations that have successfully established a devops culture for speedy, stable software releases often rely on an internal developer platform to deploy code. But what is an ‘IDP’ and how do you ...

Summary

  • What is an internal developer platform?
  • Stephen O’Grady, a principal analyst at Redmonk, says he has seen a “definite appetite for taking the requisite pieces in a tool chain and putting them together into a platform where the developer can come in and write an app, and all of the underlying complexity is abstracted,” over the past calendar year.
  • One way to think about this is as the thinnest viable platform, or “being explicit about what about the platform is important and ensuring it is no bigger than necessary,” said Matthew Skelton, one of the authors of Team Topologies, during the Devops Enterprise Summit in 2019.
  • “ We usually see organizations take a small group of their best engineers and ask them to be the glue across segregated tool chains.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.26)
  2. Backend (0.19)
  3. UX (0.04)

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