Internal Developer Platforms

A book-shaped table of contents for Internal Developer Platforms: IDP fundamentals, architecture, self-service, golden paths, software catalogs, Backstage, templates, platform APIs and automation, developer experience, governance, operations, success metrics, anti-patterns, enterprise scale, and MAANG interview preparation — cross-linking existing platform-engineering-fundamentals/sre/observability notes instead of duplicating them.

1 — Why Templates Matter

Why software templates, not documentation, are the mechanism that actually makes a golden path get followed.

2 — Service Templates

Service-level templates that scaffold a new microservice with the organization's standards already applied.

3 — Infrastructure Templates

Infrastructure-level templates for provisioning the cloud resources a service depends on alongside its code scaffold.

4 — Organization Standards

How organization-wide standards, language versions, CI pipelines, security baselines, get encoded into templates rather than enforced after the fact.