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[SERVICE]FOUNDATION8–14 weeks (initial), continuous (with managed)
[03] / SERVICE — PLATFORM ENGINEERING

An internal developer platform your team will actually use.

Golden paths, GitOps, self-service environments. We build the internal developer platform that lets your application teams ship without a ticket, and lets your platform team sleep without a pager.

Start with the Kickstarter→ Book the Platform Read→
[01] / CAPABILITIES _

What an Altitudes internal platform includes.

The golden path in practice: from a developer's first request to a running service in minutes — no tickets, no manual approvals.

[FIG.04 / PLATFORM ENGINEERING · GOLDEN PATH] FROM INTAKE TO FIRST DEPLOY · IN MINUTES
  • [01] / GOLDEN PATH

    Paved roads, escape hatches

    Defaults that work for 90 percent of services. Escape hatches that don't punish the rare exception.

  • [02] / GITOPS

    Declarative everything

    Application config, infra, policies, secrets references. The repo is the source of truth, not the cluster.

  • [03] / SELF-SERVICE

    Backstage or equivalent portal

    New service in minutes, not days. Templated, governed, observable from t=0.

  • [04] / RUNTIME

    Kubernetes or managed runtime

    EKS, AKS, Cloud Run, ECS. Pick the right tool per workload, share the platform substrate.

  • [05] / GUARDRAILS

    Policy as code

    OPA, Kyverno, Azure Policy. Compliance baked in, not bolted on, AI workloads included.

  • [06] / FEEDBACK

    Telemetry for the platform itself

    Service inventory, golden-path adoption, lead time, change failure rate. We measure ourselves.

[02] HOW WE RUN IT _

How we run a platform engagement.

From audit to handoff8–14 weeks (initial), continuous (with managed)
[01] / AUDIT

45-minute audit.

We map your current developer-experience friction in three questions.

⏱ 45 min
[02] / DESIGN

Platform reference architecture.

Aligned with your existing landing zone, your runtime choices, your team topology.

⏱ 2 wks
[03] / BUILD

Implementation, 6–10 weeks.

Two engineers, three teams onboarded in parallel. Golden path proven on real services.

⏱ 6–10 wks
[04] / HANDOFF

Platform team owns it.

Documented, instrumented, with a backlog and a quarterly review you can run yourself.

⏱ 1 wk
[RELATED]PACKAGED SOLUTIONCLOUD KICKSTARTER

Cloud Kickstarter, platform variant.

Landing zone plus internal developer platform, in one engagement. Backstage or equivalent, golden path, three teams onboarded. Outcome: developers self-serve, platform sleeps.

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Questions about platform engineering.

[01] Do we need Kubernetes? +

Often, but not always. We pick the right runtime per workload: managed serverless for small services, Kubernetes for shared infrastructure, managed databases for data. Same platform substrate underneath.

[02] Backstage or something simpler? +

We default to Backstage when the team will own the portal long-term. For smaller teams, a simpler catalogue (Roadie, or a custom Astro-based portal) is more honest.

[03] How do you handle AI workloads on the platform? +

The same way as any workload: a templated path with the right guardrails, observability and cost attribution. AI services are first-class on the platform, not a separate stack.

[04] Can you take over an existing platform? +

Yes. We frequently do. The Excellence & Benchmarking service is often the entry point: assess what's there, decide what stays.

[NEXT STEP]

Ready to talk platform engineering?

Start with the Kickstarter→ Or email hello@altitudes.cloud→

One call, one written summary, either way.