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As cloud computing, containerization, devops, and microservice architectures have established themselves as the building blocks for modern application development, the need for a simple way to manage those resources for internal software developer teams has become more and more important.
At many elite engineering organizations—think Google, Netflix, and Amazon—internal developer platforms (IDPs) ease the operations load on their devops teams, while abstracting away unnecessary decisions for software developers.
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Just as former president Barack Obama only ever wore grey or blue suits to ease his cognitive load, developers working with a good internal developer platform can worry just about their code, a Git repository, and pushing to a platform that takes care of the underlying infrastructure.