Infrastructure Tooling and Developer Experience Questions

Covers building the platform, tools, and processes that enable engineers to move quickly and safely. Topics include continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, release strategies such as canary and blue green deployments, build systems, monorepo versus polyrepo trade offs, local development environments and reproducibility, feature flagging, test automation and test infrastructure, dependency and package management, developer portals and internal SDKs, service templates, observability and logging for developer feedback, automated security and compliance scanning, infrastructure as code, and developer productivity measurement. Also addresses platform team scope, adoption strategies, developer onboarding, documentation and training, and balancing platform standardization with team autonomy.