Platform Engineering

It depends on the scope and the complexity of your legacy. A migration of 20 to 50 services typically takes 3 to 6 months. For larger scopes (100+ services), plan on 6 to 12 months with a wave-based approach. We always start with the least critical workloads to de-risk the process.

We track four key metrics: how often you deploy, how long it takes from code to production, what percentage of deployments cause an incident, and how long it takes to resolve it. We add hands-on indicators: onboarding time for a new developer, provisioning time for an environment. Everything is defined during scoping and tracked at each milestone.

We always start with an assessment to measure your maturity objectively: how often do you deploy, how long from idea to production, what is your incident rate. Then we identify high-impact quick wins, often deployment automation and environment standardization. The goal is to demonstrate value in 4 to 6 weeks to get the teams on board.

No. Kubernetes makes sense beyond a certain number of services and level of orchestration complexity. For simpler architectures, solutions like ECS, Cloud Run or even serverless are enough. We recommend Kubernetes when the investment is justified by the number of teams and the deployment frequency.

Agentic coding means autonomous AI agents built directly into your development toolchain: they review code in merge requests, generate unit tests, detect and remediate vulnerabilities, and can resolve tickets end to end. The key is to integrate them into the platform, not as a side tool, but as a native link in your CI/CD pipelines and your IDP.

On average, our clients see a 6x increase in deployment frequency, lead time cut by a factor of 3, 40 to 60% fewer production incidents, and developer onboarding cut by a factor of 5. ROI is measured in developer time recovered, reliability gained and the ability to scale teams.

The budget depends on the ambition. A minimal IDP foundation (developer portal, golden paths for 2–3 use cases, standardized CI/CD) starts at €80K over 3 months. A full platform with Backstage, self-service provisioning, built-in observability and FinOps governance runs €150–300K over 4 to 6 months. ROI comes fast: within the first quarter, developers at our clients spend 40% less time on infrastructure.

DevOps is a culture and a set of practices (CI/CD, IaC, monitoring). Platform Engineering industrializes those practices by building a self-service internal platform for developers. In practice, instead of every team configuring its own pipeline and infrastructure, the platform team provides standardized services (create a service, deploy, observe) that developers consume without handling the underlying complexity.