Deliver developer-friendly infrastructure with automation, AI acceleration, and real-world platform patterns all built from scratch on your laptop
Key Features
Hands-on guide to designing, deploying, and evolving engineering platforms with real-world patterns
Focus on developer experience, enabling self-service, scalability, and AI augmentation from day one
Built for practitioners offering step-by-step, practical knowledge for shaping modern delivery
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book DescriptionThe Platform Engineer's Handbook equips senior engineers and DevOps professionals to deliver developer-friendly infrastructure with automation, speed, AI acceleration, and intelligence. Starting with a blank slate, you'll build a complete, modern platform that runs locally on your laptop, learning real-world patterns as you go.
In this handbook, you'll follow a structured, progressive journey, beginning with source control governance and branching strategies, then deploying a Kubernetes-based runtime, embedding observability, and securing platform access. You'll implement self-service onboarding, CI/CD as a service, and developer portals with Backstage. Later chapters introduce infrastructure blueprints, policy as code, FinOps observability, and AI-augmented platform services such as agent-based onboarding and copilots for pipeline creation.
Each chapter combines core concepts, lab-based exercises, and production-ready best practices to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter. By the end, you'll have a working MVP platform and the skills to adapt and scale it for your team or organization.What you will learn
Build a scalable, developer-focused engineering platform MVP
Enable self-service onboarding and app deployment
Create golden paths with reusable CI/CD workflows
Scaffold new projects with portal-based starter kits
Automate secure access with OAuth and RBAC
Publish services to a centralized developer portal
Deliver platform features with AI-augmented tooling
Scale platform services without disrupting users
Who this book is forThis book is intended for intermediate to senior software engineers and DevOps professionals with prior experience in cloud-native software development patterns and practices who are interested in learning how to build secure, scalable engineering platforms to accelerate software delivery and the why behind it.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80638-013-8 (9781806380138)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sean Alvarez is an established engineering leader with a proven track record of driving large-scale transformations and modernizing enterprise platforms. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the Life Sciences business at Brillio, where he leads engineering teams and advises clients on digital transformation and platform modernization. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering and consulting, he specializes in applying Platform Engineering principles to drive enterprise-scale change across all major cloud vendors. Previously, he was a Principal Consultant and Head of Business Platforms for North America at Thoughtworks. Sean is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering and has presented at industry events including Platmosphere 2024 and QCon 2023. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA, combining deep technical expertise with strategic insight.
Ajay Chankramath is a technology leader with over 35 years of global experience in platform engineering, DevOps, and AI-augmented software delivery. He currently serves as the CTO & Global Managing Director of Platform & Product Engineering at Brillio, where he drives innovation across industry verticals. Previously, he led platform engineering at Thoughtworks, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Broadridge, and Xilinx. Ajay is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering, a Platform Engineering Ambassador, a Platform Engineering instructor, and a Team Topologies Advocate. He speaks regularly at conferences such as PlatformCon, DevOpsDays, Kubeday, and the DevOps Enterprise Summit (ELTS), shaping engineering strategies for the world's leading enterprises.
Table of Contents
Platform Engineering: Laying the Groundwork
Scalable Platform Runtime with Kubernetes and Service Mesh
Securing Platform Access
Embedding Observability
Evaluate the User Experience
Accelerating DevEx: Deploying and Curating Your First Developer Portal
Self-Service Platform Onboarding
CI/CD as a Platform Service
Self-Service Infrastructure Management
Publishing Starter Kits
Validating Compliance with Policy-as-Code
Optimize Cost, Performance, and Scalability
Resilience Automation
Agentic and AI-Augmented Platforms
