Platform Engineering
Build internal developer platforms with golden paths
Platform team as a product team. Developers as customers.
A 1-week program on designing, building, and operating Internal Developer Platforms. Backstage fundamentals, golden paths, self-service provisioning, and the product discipline that separates great platforms from config-by-committee.
Overview
Platform engineering is the fastest-growing infrastructure discipline for good reason: organizations are tired of bespoke scripts, tribal knowledge, and each team rediscovering the same problems. An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) packages the best patterns as self-service products for application teams. This program teaches your team to build one.
Curriculum covers IDP architecture and scope, Backstage fundamentals (plugins, templates, TechDocs, Software Catalog), golden paths (templated scaffolding for common app types), self-service provisioning (via Terraform, Crossplane, or custom operators), developer experience metrics (DORA, SPACE), and the product discipline required to make a platform team a product team. Capstone project requires teams to ship a working IDP prototype supporting 3+ golden paths.
What's included
Production-grade capabilities, ready to enable in your workspace.
IDP architecture
What belongs in the platform, what doesn't, and how to stage scope without boiling the ocean.
Backstage fundamentals
Software Catalog, Software Templates, TechDocs, plugin development, custom integrations.
Golden paths
Templated scaffolding for common app types. Opinions enforced as templates, not documentation.
Self-service provisioning
Terraform modules, Crossplane compositions, or custom operators behind a user-friendly portal.
DevEx metrics
DORA, SPACE frameworks, developer surveys, qualitative feedback loops, and actionable measurement.
Product discipline
Platform team as product team: roadmaps, user research, adoption metrics, treating devs as customers.
Business outcomes
Measurable impact teams see when they adopt platform engineering.
Full-time intensive format
Whole platform team aligned on IDP approach in a single week rather than months of slow-drip decisions.
Working IDP prototype
Participants ship a working IDP with 3+ golden paths by week-end. Foundation for real platform build.
Discipline shift
Team leaves thinking of themselves as platform-as-product, not ops-as-support.
Alumni community
Alumni Slack with other platform-engineering teams. Share patterns, anti-patterns, and hard lessons.
How customers use it
Real scenarios from VxCloud customers across regulated industries and fast-moving teams.
Fortune 500 with 2,000 engineers and platform-team ambitions
Platform team trained, delivered MVP IDP in 90 days. Year 1 adoption at 40%, year 2 at 85%.
Series C startup with growing infra complexity and new platform team
First platform engineers through program. IDP v0 shipped within a quarter, v1 with golden paths within 6 months.
Bank standardizing engineering across 30 divisions
IDP with mandatory golden paths enforces compliance, security, and cost standards across divisions automatically.
Federal agency building a government-authorized IDP for internal use
Agency IDP built on FedRAMP-authorized foundation. Application teams self-serve within compliance boundaries.
Frequently asked questions
Still have questions? Our enterprise team answers within one business day.
DevOps is a culture and set of practices bridging dev and ops. Platform engineering is the specific discipline of building and running an internal developer platform as a product. Platform engineering is one implementation of DevOps culture, with product discipline applied to infrastructure.
Related enterprise capabilities
Ready to move forward with Platform Engineering?
Talk to our enterprise team — we'll scope your requirements, map the right capabilities, and build a rollout plan tailored to your organization.