Design a Platform Engineering Strategy
Design an internal developer platform strategy to improve developer productivity and standardize infrastructure across 50+ engineering teams.
Solution Overview
Build self-service platform with golden paths, implement InnerSource model, and measure developer experience metrics.
Build self-service platform with golden paths, implement InnerSource model, and measure developer experience metrics.
How do you measure developer productivity?
Consider the buy vs build decision
Think about adoption and change management
Platform Engineering aims to reduce cognitive load on product teams by providing self-service infrastructure capabilities.
operational
- •Platform availability
- •Incident response time
platform adoption
- •% teams using golden paths
- •Self-service success rate
developer productivity
- •Deployment frequency
- •Lead time
- •Time to first commit
examples
- •Standard microservice template
- •Database provisioning workflow
- •Deployment pipeline
definition
Opinionated, well-supported ways to build and deploy services
flexibility
Allow deviation but make the right thing the easy thing
funding model
Central budget vs chargeback
platform teams
- •Infrastructure
- •Developer Experience
- •Security
- •Data Platform
interaction modes
- •X-as-a-Service
- •Collaboration
- •Facilitation
phases
- •MVP with early adopters
- •Feedback and iteration
- •Broader rollout
- •Continuous improvement
change management
Training, documentation, champions program
governance
- •Cost management
- •Security scanning
- •Compliance automation
infrastructure
- •Kubernetes clusters
- •Service mesh
- •Observability stack
- •CI/CD pipelines
developer experience
- •Service templates
- •CLI tools
- •Documentation portal
- •Self-service UI