Platform Engineering in practice — Why and How to start
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Recounts building Web Cloud platforms at scale for a few hundred engineers, dozens of products and hundreds of microservices and customers, with concrete tools and flows: Backstage templates that scaffold React + Spring Boot + Postgres apps, CI/CD + Terraform deploys to AWS and automated pull requests to roll upgrades to ~20 customers. Reports measurable outcomes: time‑to‑market down ~6x, lead time from days to hours, outages trimmed to minutes, and over 50k platform‑created applications in production.
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