The problem we solve
Platform engineering addresses the fundamental issues that hinder development efficiency — complex environments, fragmented tooling, and reliance on infrastructure teams. By building a robust internal development platform (IDP), developers gain greater autonomy, boost productivity, and accelerate the delivery of new products. This approach introduces standardization, automation, and transparency across the development lifecycle, reducing operational overhead, minimizing errors, and enabling secure, scalable innovation.
The secret weapon of modern development teams
What is IDP?
The Internal Development Platform (IDP) serves as a smart layer between developers and the complexities of infrastructure and operational processes. It allows developers to focus on coding rather than managing infrastructure, configurations, deployments, or security settings. The IDP delivers a comprehensive self-service environment for application development, testing, and deployment. It provides a range of services in an ‘X as a Service’ style, where X may include infrastructure components (such as databases, queues, caches, or CDNs), activities (like build, test, or deploy), or tools (including logging, application performance monitoring, or static code analysis). These services are prepared by platform teams and made accessible to developers through command-line interfaces, web portals, or APIs.
Why are you hearing more about platform engineering?
Internal Developer Platform is not just another tech buzzword. It's a strategic investment in development speed, quality, and scalability. Companies with larger development teams have significantly improved their developers' work efficiency through IDP – and gained a competitive advantage.
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Accelerated Development
IDP eliminates reliance on DevOps or infrastructure teams. Developers can create databases, configure environments or deploy services themselves in minutes.
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Standardization and Security
Everything runs according to company standards (quality, security, etc.), automatically, without the need to make many small decisions and individual adjustments.
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Developer Productivity and Satisfaction
The platform offers developers paved paths, removes routine obstacles, eliminates waiting in processes, and reduces cognitive load. As a result the teams gain speed and enhanced motivation.
What can the platform include?
Each IDP is tailored to the needs of the company, team, and technology stack used. Typically, the platform addresses selected areas from the following components.
Local development environments
Application templates
Production and non-production runtime environments
Infrastructure provisioning
Security policies and governance as code
Observability tools
Service discovery and service catalog
Integration with team communication tools
Secrets management
API publishing
Feature flag management
Permission and access rights management (RBAC)
Audit logs and change history
Performance testing and chaos engineering tools
Quantitative and qualitative metrics measurement
Key benefits for you
Faster deployments
IDP significantly reduces the time between writing code and deploying it to production.
Team and company scalability
Development teams can grow without proportionally increasing the load on DevOps or infrastructure teams.
Standardization across teams
Templates, policies, and automation ensure that each team follows best practices and company policies.
Improved security and compliance
Roles, access, and security rules are implemented as code, uniformly and auditably.
Relevant data for decision-making
Standardization streamlines the measurement of key metrics and enables more effective trend analysis.
How it works
Building an Internal Developer Platform involves several key steps that are crucial for ensuring its successful adoption and long-term sustainability. The sequence of these steps also aims to minimize risks during the platform's development.
Identifying problem areas
The first step is a detailed analysis of the current development environment, processes, tools, and identification of recurring problems and bottlenecks - including quantifying the impact these problem areas have on the organization.
Measuring the current state
We will design and measure metrics of the current state in your specific environment, so that after implementing the platform, we can describe and quantify its benefits.
Creating a financial model and calculating ROI
An internal development platform must make economic sense. Together, we will develop a financial model that outlines the required investments over time and the expected returns. Additionally, we will support you in presenting the project effectively to key stakeholders.
Specification and implementation of MVP - 'Minimum Viable Platform'
We will identify the essential features the minimum viable platform must include to tackle the biggest pain points. Following this, we will develop and deliver the minimum viable platform accordingly.
Onboarding the first application to the platform
We will find a suitable test application and conduct onboarding together with its team. This team then starts using the platform regularly in a non-production environment.
Benefits evaluation and presentation
We will re-measure the same metrics collected prior to the platform implementation to assess its actual benefits. This evaluation will serve as the foundation for informed decision-making. Based on the findings, we will refine the financial model and collaborate with you to prepare the presentation for management.
Preparing the production platform
We will select and integrate additional tools or activities into the platform to enhance its capabilities and prepare it for production use. This includes ensuring full compliance with quality, security, regulatory, and other relevant standards.
Onboarding additional applications and teams
Together, we will develop a repeatable onboarding process for integrating additional applications and teams into the platform. This process will enable the gradual migration of all applications onto the platform over time.
Why choose us
Beyond technology, we have expertise in product management, which is essential for building internal platforms - the platform is a product for internal customers.
We emphasize developer experience. The platform is designed for developers, so its usage must be simple and intuitive.
We have the ability to manage changes and communicate across teams. IDP is not just a technological project, but also a cultural and process change.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to build an IDP?
It depends on the scope, existing infrastructure, and goals - a functional MVP typically takes weeks, while full implementation and onboarding takes several months.
Do we need to use Kubernetes or cloud to have an IDP?
No. IDP can be built without Kubernetes, even in on-prem environments - the key principles (automation, self-service, standardization) are what matters, not specific technologies.
Will the IDP be adapted to our processes?
Yes. Every platform we build is unique - we tailor it to your specific needs, teams, technologies, and work processes. However, some processes will change by the nature of the platform.
How does adoption work among developers?
Part of our delivery includes workshops, training, and developer feedback. We help with communication and set up processes so that developers adopt and want to use the platform.
Can we develop the platform further ourselves?
Absolutely. We build the platform transparently, with documentation, and ongoing knowledge transfer. You'll be able to operate it yourself, and if you wish, we can remain as partners for further development.