Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

At lastjob, we used code pipeline, it's pretty easy since the integration is there already and if you're doing CDK, you're probably all in on AWS anyway.

instead of an IDP, we distrinuted most patterns as docs + shared libraries

The shared library route was ok, but we probably should have built something on top to kick out the three most used patterns easily, with full automation