What tools do platform engineers use?

There’s a lot of noise around platform engineering, and internal developer platforms. But what do platform engineering teams begin with and which tools do they use?

How developer productivity teams get funded

This article surveyed 20 companies to understand when they first established developer productivity teams and how they justified the investment. The results can teach you a lot about which projects mark the beginning of a platform engineering initiative.

85% of engineers say they will use an internal developer portal in 2024.

Instead of assuming that internal developer portals are the key enabler of platform engineering, Port set to survey them to find whether they plan to have one. However, when we asked some more, we found that some treat spreadsheets as a service catalog, which they aren’t.

Platform engineering is about golden paths. What are they?

Golden paths are an “opinionated and supported path to build and run systems” and are one of the key reasons used to justify IDPs. This article looks at the definition of golden paths and how to set them up in an internal developer platform.?

What are platform orchestrators

Setting up developer environments is one of the classic use cases of a developer platform. Do you use platform orchestrators, self-service environment management or portals? This article provides some answers.

Setting and maintaining standards with platform engineering

When we say that portals help set standards and maintain them, what do we actually mean? This article explains the use of scorecards for managing standards, as well as exception management, initiatives and more.