EXPERTInfrastructuresoftware architect
Design a Platform Engineering Strategy
Design an internal developer platform strategy to improve developer productivity and standardize infrastructure across 50+ engineering teams.
Estimated Time: 60 minutes
#platform-engineering#devops#infrastructure#developer-experience
Solution Overview
Build self-service platform with golden paths, implement InnerSource model, and measure developer experience metrics.
Hints to Get Started
1
How do you measure developer productivity?
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Consider the buy vs build decision
3
Think about adoption and change management
Context
Platform Engineering aims to reduce cognitive load on product teams by providing self-service infrastructure capabilities.
Metrics
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
Golden Paths
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
Team Structure
funding model
Central budget vs chargeback
platform teams
- •Infrastructure
- •Developer Experience
- •Security
- •Data Platform
interaction modes
- •X-as-a-Service
- •Collaboration
- •Facilitation
Rollout Strategy
phases
- •MVP with early adopters
- •Feedback and iteration
- •Broader rollout
- •Continuous improvement
change management
Training, documentation, champions program
Platform Components
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