Internal Developer Portal vs. Platform: What’s the Difference?

As organizations scale and adopt more DevOps and cloud native technologies, developers often struggle to navigate the fragmented ecosystem of tools, infrastructure and deployment processes. This increasing tool sprawl leads to cognitive overload, operational bottlenecks and inconsistent workflows, making it harder for teams to focus on delivering business value.

To solve this, engineering leaders have sought ways to integrate infrastructure, workflows and automation into a golden path that enables developer self-service while reducing…