The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
Hey dev.to! Maksim here again, author of the previous article "From Idea to MVP: Building a Classified Platform in Serbia" about Rsale.net, a classified platform for Serbia. In that post I described the stack: Next.js 15 + React 19 + ASP.NET Core microservices + AI translation. A few months later, the frontend has been fully rewritten on SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 (runes). The Next.js codebase is gon
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p