<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Backstage on cloudplz</title><link>https://cloudplz.cc/tags/backstage/</link><description>Recent content in Backstage on cloudplz</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://cloudplz.cc/tags/backstage/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>No-Code Infrastructure Platform</title><link>https://cloudplz.cc/projects/no-code-infrastructure-platform/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://cloudplz.cc/projects/no-code-infrastructure-platform/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The bottleneck in database infrastructure was never the databases — it was the&#10;queue in front of them. This platform removed the queue: product teams&#10;provision production-ready Aurora clusters through a web form, no Terraform&#10;required.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="challenge"&gt;Challenge&#10;&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Infrastructure as code made provisioning repeatable, but it traded one&#10;bottleneck for another:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terraform expertise required.&lt;/strong&gt; Not every team has it, and shouldn&amp;rsquo;t need it to get a database.&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lead times.&lt;/strong&gt; A routine cluster request waited on the platform team&amp;rsquo;s queue.&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inconsistent patterns.&lt;/strong&gt; Left to hand-write HCL, teams produced infrastructure that drifted in quality and shape.&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The platform team as critical path.&lt;/strong&gt; Every database request flowed through a small group — that doesn&amp;rsquo;t scale.&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The goal: democratize provisioning without democratizing misconfiguration.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>