Scaling DevOps Without Scaling Ops
summary
Company scales IoT dev org from 10 to over 300 while ops headcount stays almost flat, so platform engineering replaces scaled SRE processes. An Internal Developer Platform built on Backstage plus generated Terraform modules (started as a YAML-to-Terraform script called Semla, later a backend service) gives teams self‑service provisioning in minutes instead of days, with opinionated templates, a cost-aggregation plugin after a spike, blueprints to compose architectures, and open-source components like InfraKitchen and InfraAssistant that also enable org-wide emergency patching.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:39Electrolux platform journey
- 4:47Infrastructure standardization
- 6:52Semla automation tool
- 8:37Cost monitoring feedback
- 10:00Open source transition
- 12:49Multi-resource provisioning
- 13:50How the platform works under the hood
- 15:15Developer independence impact
- 16:19Infra Assistant AI
- 18:02AI agent use cases
- 19:27Open source resources
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