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Developer journeys, cognitive load and platform product concepts
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Azure Academy · Enterprise Knowledge Graph
Platform Engineering and FinOps Knowledge Graph
Connect internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service, governance, observability, cost allocation and product management.
Objective: Understand how platform capabilities improve developer flow while maintaining security, reliability and financial accountability.
Practical guidance
Foundations and prerequisites
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Cloud cost allocation, budgets and unit economics
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Service catalogue, templates and automation fundamentals
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Technology relationships and dependencies
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Golden paths connect repositories, pipelines, infrastructure and operations
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Policy and secure defaults reduce repeated governance effort
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Tags, telemetry and ownership metadata enable showback and optimisation
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Architecture, delivery and operations
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Prioritise platform capabilities from user needs and measurable friction
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Automate subscription, environment and service provisioning
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Review adoption, reliability, cost and developer experience as product outcomes
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Validation and learning evidence
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Measure lead time, adoption, support demand and cost efficiency
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Validate escape hatches, exception handling and rollback
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Retire low-value capabilities and improve paths from evidence
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