The Platform Engineer's Handbook : Build Secure, Developer-focused Platforms That Streamline Modern Software Delivery
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1806380137 | 449 pages | True PDF | 24.52 MB
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 Description
The 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 for
This 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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