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05 September 2024
How to Choose the Right Tools for Your Internal Developer Platform
An IDP is a product with a unique set of users, your developer team, and the process for selecting the right features isn’t unlike the process for planning a commercial product.
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Exploring what it is that makes the open source framework for building developer portals so popular.
04 April 2024
How to Win at Platform Engineering
What DevOps team leaders can do to establish a successful platform engineering practice.
25 January 2024
How to Build a Platform Team (And Why You Need One)
If you want to give your developers the best tools so they can ship better software more often, create a team to do just that.
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Platform Engineering, What It’s For, and How to Get It Right
Introduction to an effective way to streamline software development and get more value out of your developer team
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