https://muhammadamal.my.id/tags/platform-engineering/ Recent content in Platform-Engineering on Hi, I'm Muhammad Amal Hugo en-us Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/lessons-from-running-platform-engineering-teams-in-2025/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/lessons-from-running-platform-engineering-teams-in-2025/ What actually works when running a platform engineering team, framed around internal product thinking, golden paths, RACI for shared services, and the failures I learned from. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/service-catalog-design-that-scales/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/service-catalog-design-that-scales/ Catalog modeling decisions that pay back at scale, learned the hard way. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/score-spec-workload-portability-2025/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/score-spec-workload-portability-2025/ Where Score Spec actually fits in a 2025 platform stack, with working examples. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/building-internal-developer-portal-backstage-1-34/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/building-internal-developer-portal-backstage-1-34/ A working engineer’s walkthrough of building an IDP from scratch with Backstage 1.34 on Node.js 22. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/predictions-2025-platform-engineering-agentic-ai/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/predictions-2025-platform-engineering-agentic-ai/ Twelve calls on platform engineering and agentic AI for 2025. Specific enough to be wrong. Pinned to December 2024 context. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/cost-justifying-platform-investments-cfo-friendly-pitch/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/cost-justifying-platform-investments-cfo-friendly-pitch/ Platform investments live or die on the business case. Here is how to write one that survives the finance review. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/argo-cd-applicationsets-self-service/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/argo-cd-applicationsets-self-service/ Argo CD ApplicationSets turn self-service GitOps real. Generators, multi-cluster fan-out, and the patterns that scale past 200 services. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/score-workload-spec-platform/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/score-workload-spec-platform/ Score decouples app spec from deploy target. Same workload runs on K8s, ECS, or Nomad. What it actually buys you, where it falls short. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/developer-experience-metrics-dora-2024/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/developer-experience-metrics-dora-2024/ DX metrics that survive a year. DORA, SPACE, and the practical instrumentation for a platform team in 2024 without surveillance optics. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/service-catalog-backstage-design/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/service-catalog-backstage-design/ A Backstage service catalog that survives. Entity model, ownership, automation, and the rot patterns that kill it within a year. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/crossplane-vs-terraform-platform-teams/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/crossplane-vs-terraform-platform-teams/ Crossplane v1.14 vs Terraform 1.6 for platform teams. Honest trade-offs, drift handling, where each one belongs in your IDP. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/golden-paths-self-service-developer-experience/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/golden-paths-self-service-developer-experience/ Golden paths beat shelfware when they’re opinionated, versioned, and updateable. How to design templates devs don’t abandon at day 30. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/internal-developer-platform-backstage-kubernetes/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/internal-developer-platform-backstage-kubernetes/ Minimum viable IDP on Backstage 1.21 + K8s 1.29. Catalog model, scaffolder, what to ship in 90 days, what to defer. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/platform-engineering-vs-devops-2024/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/platform-engineering-vs-devops-2024/ Platform engineering replaced DevOps-for-everyone in 2024. What changed, what an IDP delivers, and why cognitive load is the real metric. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/advanced-github-actions-reusable-workflows-oidc/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/advanced-github-actions-reusable-workflows-oidc/ How to share CI logic across repos without copy-paste, authenticate to AWS and GCP without long-lived keys, and make matrix builds maintainable. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/backstage-internal-developer-platform-backbone/ Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/backstage-internal-developer-platform-backbone/ Backstage is glue, not a platform. Here is how to wire it to ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and Crossplane so it stops being a wiki and starts being a control plane. https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/platform-engineering-team-topologies-idp/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/platform-engineering-team-topologies-idp/ Platform engineering treats the platform as a product. Here is how Team Topologies, golden paths, and a thin-slice IDP actually change how teams ship.