The year is coming to an end. It’s already boring to say it but it has been quite a ride. The show goes on and apart from all its complexities for us it also was the year during which our category started trending: Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are being talked about everywhere. On KubeCon, at our friend at ThoughtWorks and the total global mentions on the search-term are up 4,000%.

So what is an Internal Developer Platform again? An IDP is like Heroku but on top of the tech and tools you are using already. It relieves pressure on ops by making application developers self-serve the tech they need, boosting their productivity.  You’ve guessed it, Humanitec is the fastest way to build yours. If you’re bored over the Christmas and want to dive in there are a couple of sites you might want to check out:

• Why do I need an Internal Developer Platform?
• How did this trend evolve historically? 
• Why is Humanitec the fastest way to build yours? 
• What’s the impact of IDPs on your engineering team?
  

If you want to hear this from us on the voiceline we got three nice webinars coming up:

• Automating delivery workflows with an Internal Developer Platform
• App Config Management for growing teams
• Gitops: the Bad and the Ugly.
  

If you’re still reading you can go into even more details and zoom in on the five core building blogs of an Internal Developer Platform and how Humanitec solves them:

• Infrastructure Orchestration (for the Ops user): what resources should spin up when your developers request an environment? 
• App Configuration Management (for the Ops user): set base-line configs so your team can apply changes in a structured way 
• RBAC (for the Ops user): define who can deploy where, spin up and change what
• Environment Management (for the application developer): spin up fully provisioned environments, manage them at scale. 
• Deployment Automation (for the application developer): Deploy, version deploys, diff, share, and automate.
  

And we’re just getting started. Count on us to nail 2021 with more features, more developer experience, more speed, and the latest news from the DevOps world.

Thank you for being part of this movement and Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Kaspar