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The Platform Engineer's Handbook
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The Platform Engineer's Handbook

by Ajay Chankramath
May 2026
Intermediate
446 pages
10h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Accelerating DevEx: Deploying and Curating Your First Developer Portal

In Part 1 of the book, we saw Maria's team set up the foundational layers and complete the first automated deployment, the day 0 and day 1 problems. While briefly discussing some of the supposedly day 2 issues, we will start part 2 with questions about finding documentation, requesting resources, and overall ownership metrics. With the original and overarching goal of reducing developers' cognitive load across the board so they can ask, use, and add value to their end-users, the idea of reduction applies to day 2 problems with the same level of rigor.

There can be a confusing set of solutions to solve this problem. Still, the one that brings home the bacon is the idea of ...

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ISBN: 9781806380138