Overview

At what point does your deployment pipeline stop shipping features and start shipping frustration? Every startup hits the same invisible wall. The codebase grows, the team expands, and suddenly your ""move fast"" culture grinds against brittle infrastructure, mismatched environments, and tribal knowledge buried in Slack threads. You do not need a Fortune 500 platform team. You need an Internal Developer Platform that respects the reality of twenty engineers, limited budget, and zero patience for internal red tape. Platform Engineering for Startups is the practical field manual for technical leads and founding engineers who know that platform work is not a luxury-it is survival mechanics. This book rejects heavy governance committees and month-long provisioning workflows. Instead, it offers lightweight, opinionated patterns that reduce cognitive load, standardize the paved road, and give your team self-service capabilities without sacrificing safety. You will learn how to design the minimum viable platform your developers actually want to use. You will build golden paths that turn day-one environment setup from a six-hour ordeal into a ten-minute self-service flow. You will implement CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and security guardrails that run quietly in the background, catching issues before they reach customers. You will also learn how to evolve your platform as you grow from fifteen to thirty engineers, driving adoption in skeptical teams and measuring what actually matters. - Why the minimum viable platform consistently outperforms the ""perfect"" architecture in early-stage teams - How to build golden paths that eliminate environment setup friction and prevent public-database misconfigurations - The exact CI/CD, observability, and security guardrails that operate silently without dedicated compliance staff - Field-tested strategies for driving platform adoption in teams that treat infrastructure as someone else's problem - A clear evolutionary roadmap for scaling your IDP from a single lunch table to thirty engineers and beyond Your infrastructure should accelerate your product, not anchor it. Build the platform your team actually wants to use-starting today.

Full Product Details

9798259231146

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available