Internal Developer Platform

Problem

Every application team independently learns: Kubernetes Terraform DNS TLS monitoring CI/CD cloud networking Developers spend enormous effort repeatedly solving infrastructure problems.

Solution — Internal Developer Platform

An internal developer platform brings together reusable capabilities for building, deploying, and operating applications: infrastructure provisioning, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and access controls. Self-service infrastructure is one capability within that broader platform.

Developer:
"I need a web API"
       ↓
Platform
       ↓
runtime + pipeline + monitoring + networking

Core idea: a platform hides repeated infrastructure complexity behind reusable developer capabilities.