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patterns/1-initial/internal-developer-platform.md

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 ## Patlet
 
-Development teams face inefficiencies due to fragmented tooling, environments, and workflows. An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) provides a centralized, self-service system that standardizes development environments and integrates tools to enhance consistency, collaboration, and developer productivity. By streamlining access to essential resources and services, the IDP accelerates software delivery and reduces cognitive load on developers.
+As InnerSource adoption increases throughout an organisation, it is not unusual that project teams start to face inefficiencies in scaling their efforts due to fragmented tooling, environments, and workflows. An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) provides a way to tackle this type of challenges through a centralized, self-service system that standardizes development environments and integrates tools to enhance consistency, collaboration, and developer productivity.
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+There is a symbiotic relationship between the IDP and InnerSource as their relationship enhances the scalability and effectiveness of both practices, especially in large organizations.
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+### IDP Helps to Scale InnerSource
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+**Standardizing Development Practices**: In large organizations, development teams often use varied tools, environments, and processes. This lack of standardization makes it challenging for InnerSource contributors to effectively participate in projects outside their immediate teams. An IDP provides a unified platform that standardizes tools, templates, and workflows, creating a consistent development ecosystem. This in turns helps to accelerate software delivery, reduces cognitive load on developers and ultimately serves as a catalyst for scaling InnerSource practices across large organizations. InnerSource Contributors can quickly adapt and become productive, which is crucial for scaling InnerSource rapidly across diverse teams.
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+**Improving Accessibility and Collaboration**: By streamlining access to essential resources and services through a self-service model, IDPs remove barriers that impede collaboration. InnerSource strategies are amplified through the standardization and accessibility provided by an IDP, making cross-team collaboration and innovation more effective. Developers can then more easily find and contribute to shared projects without navigating complex or unfamiliar environments.
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+**Breaking Down Silos**: Excessive ownership culture often arises in organizations lacking common platform engineering practices, where individual teams or departments hold disproportionate control over their tools, processes, or codebases. Often in this kind of situation, teams treat their codebase as proprietary and actively discourage contributions from other teams by failing to document code properly, setting up overly restrictive access controls or even dismissing external contributions by blocking pull requests. This creates organisational silos, reducing opportunities for cross-team contributions. An IDP addresses this by promoting shared ownership of platform components leading over time to shared standards and practices, fostering a culture of openness and collaboration, which is at the heart of InnerSource.
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+### InnerSource Practices Amplify the Adoption of IDP
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+**Channeling Contributions to Platform Development**: InnerSource creates an avenue for developers across the organization to contribute directly to the IDP. For example, they can suggest or implement features that address common pain points or enhance usability. This community-driven approach ensures that the IDP evolves in response to real-world challenges faced by its users, making it more relevant and effective.
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+**Encouraging Shared Ownership of the Platform**: Through InnerSource, developers treat the IDP as a shared product rather than something imposed by a centralized team. This increases adoption and engagement, as teams feel a sense of ownership and responsibility for its success.
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+**Improving Documentation and Knowledge Sharing**: InnerSource practices naturally encourage contributions to documentation. Teams using the IDP can provide feedback, improve documentation, or add usage examples, ensuring that knowledge is continuously refined and up-to-date.
 
 ## Problem
 
-A lack of standardization across development environments and tools introduces inefficiencies, lengthens onboarding time, and complicates project collaboration and scaling. Diverse setups across teams result in inconsistencies, making it difficult to ensure security, governance, and productivity at scale. Additionally, these inefficiencies lead to higher operational overhead and slower innovation cycles.
+A lack of standardization across development environments and tools significantly hampers the scalability of InnerSource practices. In fragmented ecosystems, contributors must navigate diverse setups, workflows, and toolchains, creating unnecessary barriers to effective collaboration. This not only increases the cognitive load for developers contributing to projects outside their teams but also limits the organization’s ability to harness the full potential of shared codebases, reusable components, and collective innovation.
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+Without a standardized foundation, InnerSource efforts struggle to scale as inconsistencies across teams lead to inefficiencies, delays, and misaligned governance practices. Contributors face challenges in understanding and integrating with unfamiliar environments, while teams resist external contributions due to perceived risks or integration overhead. An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) mitigates these issues by providing a self-service, unified platform that standardizes tools, processes, and environments. This enables InnerSource contributors to focus on delivering value rather than overcoming technical incompatibilities, fostering a culture of collaboration and accelerating the adoption of InnerSource at scale.
 
 ## Story (optional)
 
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 ## Context
 
-This pattern emerges in organizations with multiple development teams working on different projects. As teams grow and evolve, discrepancies in the setup of development environments and access to resources become more prominent, hampering collaboration, introducing security risks, and reducing developer productivity. The need for uniformity without compromising flexibility drives the adoption of an IDP.
+This pattern emerges in organizations with multiple InnerSource development teams working on different projects. As teams grow and evolve, discrepancies in the setup of development environments and access to resources become more prominent, hampering collaboration, introducing security risks, and reducing developer productivity. The need for uniformity without compromising flexibility drives the adoption of an IDP.
 
 ## Forces
 
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 ## Resulting Context
 
-Adoption of an Internal Developer Platform results in:
+Adoption of an Internal Developer Platform helps to address directly a number of challenges in scaling InnerSource efforts across large and complex organisations, specifically supporting some of the areas that InnerSource tries to solve for such as:
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+**Reducing development silos caused by excessive ownership culture**: An IDP breaks down silos by standardizing tools, environments, and processes across teams. It fosters InnerSource practices, where code and resources are shared across teams, reducing excessive ownership over particular tools or systems. By providing a centralized platform, IDPs make it easier for teams to collaborate, access shared resources, and contribute to each other’s work without the traditional territorial boundaries​.
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+**Increasing innovation speed by reducing time spent solving similar issues and fostering healthy code reuse**: IDPs provide a central repository of templates, services, and reusable components, which encourages code reuse across the organization. Developers can access these assets directly from the platform, reducing duplication of effort. By integrating with documentation, APIs, and existing solutions, IDPs streamline the process of leveraging previous work, enabling teams to focus on innovation rather than reinventing the wheel​.
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+**Solving project/team dependencies beyond "wait it out" and "build workarounds", thereby reducing engineering bottlenecks**:
+IDPs allow teams to self-serve infrastructure, environments, and tools, reducing dependency on other teams to manually provision resources. By centralizing access to infrastructure and automating common processes like CI/CD pipelines, dependencies are less likely to create bottlenecks.
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+**Increase quality**: IDPs increase software quality by promoting consistent and standardized practices and providing built-in guardrails for governance, security, and compliance. Automated testing and deployment pipelines ensure that all code adheres to the organization’s quality standards before it goes into production. Moreover, since developers can focus more on solving high-level problems rather than fighting with tooling and environment setup, they have more time to improve code quality​.
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+**Increasing employee happiness**: The number one objective of an IDP is to increase Developer happiness, by treating and promoting the platform as an internal product. By reducing friction in the development process, an IDP allows developers to focus on what they do best which is writing code and solving meaningful problems. Self-service capabilities reduce waiting times for resources, while centralized platforms eliminate the complexity of managing disparate tools. This leads to a more streamlined developer experience, which in turn boosts job satisfaction and productivity​.
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+**Increasing success of new hires**: IDPs simplify the onboarding process by providing new hires with easy access to pre-configured environments, documentation, and templates. Rather than spending their first weeks figuring out how to set up their development environment or learning which tools to use, new hires can start contributing much faster. The IDP serves as a single point of entry for everything they need, dramatically reducing ramp-up time​. As a result, developer onboarding time (typically measured through time for the first approved commit) is a key metric in IDP implementation and success.
 
-- Stremline development workflow and improved developer efficiency through self-service workflows and standardized environments.
-- Enhanced collaboration as InnerSource practices make code and tools more accessible across teams.
-- Faster onboarding of new team members on InnerSource projects.
-- Faster software delivery due to reduced operational overhead, seamless integration of tools and standardization of development best practices.
-- Consistent governance and security policies across all development environments.
-- Scalability and flexibility, with the ability to extend the platform as the organization evolves​
+**Building actionable documentation**: An IDP integrates documentation directly into the development workflows via self-service portals. Teams can access API documentation, code examples, and templates from the same place they access tools and environments. This centralization ensures that documentation is kept up-to-date and easily accessible. Furthermore, by encouraging direct InnerSource contributions into the documentation itself (from users), teams can continuously improve documentation based on real-world usage​.
 
 ## Rationale
 
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 (known instances to be added)
 
-## Status (optional until merging)
+## Status
 
 Initial Draft
 
-## Author(s) (optional)
+## Author(s)
 
 Vincent Caldeira
 
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 ## Alias (optional)
 
-- Developer Self-Service Portal
+(known aliases to be added)