Internal Developer Portals Can Do More than You Think

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Platform engineering is the new thing. The same goes for internal developer portals, which are the main developer-facing tools used by platform engineering folks.

We’ll explain the core use case for internal developer portals, and then talk about some surprising and compelling use cases that most platform engineering folks miss.

Even if uploading data and reflecting it in the software catalog can happen quickly, there is an adoption effort associated with getting developers to abandon TicketOps or excessive permissions and begin using the internal developer portal for self-service actions or software catalog visibility.

Just like soft-serve ice cream, where chocolate is intertwined with vanilla, internal developer portals have two main intertwined parts: the software catalog and the developer self-service.

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