One challenge in the platform engineering space we keep hearing about is the unrealized potential of dev portals, whether due to the gap between promise and reality or implementation challenges or just choosing the wrong path. We recently launched a model that many of our existing clients find quite valuable that helps you make this decision making process simpler. Based on our new best seller (#1 in New Books on Cloud Computing and Software) on Amazon -
https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Platform-Engineering-Ajay-Chankramath/dp/1633436497/ published by Manning.
Portal-IQ provides you with a contextual view of how to select and adopt the right developer portal for your enterprise. This uses statistical scoring, Bayesian methods, and multi-dimensional weighting, bringing the discipline of science to platform decisions. It can also model uncertainty and real-world context so recommendations reflect your actual needs, not just feature lists. The best thing is that if you don’t like our approach, you can customize it for your needs. If you are interested in trying out the model, go to
portal-iq.platformetrics.com - learn more about how we approached the problem here
https://github.com/achankra/platformetrics-portal-iq and
https://github.com/achankra/platformetrics-portal-iq/blob/main/APPROACH.md