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Build internal developer platforms (IDPs) with self-service infrastructure, golden paths, and developer portals using Backstage, Crossplane, and score.
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# Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The goal is to reduce cognitive load, standardize infrastructure provisioning, and accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and security guardrails.
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## 1. When to Use
Adopt platform engineering practices when your organization experiences:
- **Cognitive overload on dev teams** -- developers spend more time on infrastructure wiring than writing business logic.
- **Inconsistent environments** -- every team provisions infrastructure differently, causing drift and outages.
- **Slow onboarding** -- new engineers take weeks to get a working development environment.
- **Repeated toil** -- the same Terraform/Helm/CI boilerplate is copy-pasted across dozens of repos.