Platform Engineering (Paperback)

Paperback. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…