Platform on Ilyas Hamdihttps://ilyashamdi.com/categories/platform/Recent content in Platform on Ilyas HamdiHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000The three stages every IDP goes throughhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/platform-engineering-internal-developer-platforms/Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/platform-engineering-internal-developer-platforms/Most IDPs go through three painful stages: no users, wrong abstractions, and the moment someone realizes it has to be operated as a product.The IDP that helps, and the one that just adds overheadhttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/idp-overhead/Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/idp-overhead/The difference between a useful IDP and a costly one is rarely the technology. It's the discipline of building for actual users and admitting what's not working.CI/CD pipeline architecture for infrastructurehttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cicd-pipeline-architecture-infrastructure/Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cicd-pipeline-architecture-infrastructure/Application CI/CD is well-trodden. Infrastructure CI/CD is younger and stranger, and applying application patterns directly to it produces predictable failures.IaC architecture at 5, 50, and 500 engineershttps://ilyashamdi.com/writing/iac-architecture-patterns/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/iac-architecture-patterns/The shape of your IaC architecture is downstream of team size. Most pain comes from running yesterday's architecture at today's scale.