DevLaunch IDP — Internal Developer Platform
An enterprise Internal Developer Platform built on Backstage that gives engineering teams self-service scaffolding and one-click deployments — with GitOps, observability, and guardrails baked in from day one.
By the time we got the call, this engineering org had four teams and four different ways of standing up a new service — none of it documented. Onboarding a new engineer meant three days of Slack archaeology before they could deploy anything. One team was still deploying by SSH-ing into a box. Nobody had done this on purpose; it's just what happens when a company grows faster than its tooling.
Backstage gave us the shell: a developer portal with a service catalog, so for the first time there was one place that listed what existed, who owned it, and what it talked to. We wired self-service software templates into it, so spinning up a new service means answering a few questions in a form, not copy-pasting a Dockerfile from a project that half-worked six months ago. ArgoCD handles delivery through GitOps, so what's running in the cluster always matches what's in Git, no exceptions. We proved the golden paths locally on Kind before touching a real cluster, then layered Helm on top for packaging and Prometheus/Grafana for observability that ships with every new service instead of getting bolted on after the first incident.
The measure that mattered most wasn't a benchmark, it was a Slack message: a new hire's first PR went to production on day three instead of week two. Golden paths cut the "how do I even start this" conversation down to almost nothing, and the team still deploying by SSH finally retired their runbook.