Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Project overview

Built a comprehensive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that revolutionized the developer experience at ArborXR. The platform provided automated infrastructure provisioning, ephemeral review environments, continuous deployment pipelines, and comprehensive monitoring. It featured both cron-based and event-driven automation to streamline development workflows and reduce time-to-production for new features.

Challenges

• Complex multi-service architecture requiring coordinated deployments
• Managing ephemeral environments with proper resource cleanup
• Creating a unified developer experience across diverse technology stacks
• Implementing reliable event-driven automation without service dependencies
• Scaling infrastructure provisioning to handle concurrent environment requests

Solutions & implementation

• Built GraphQL API with Pothos for type-safe schema definition and strong TypeScript integration
• Implemented Prisma ORM for robust database operations and migrations
• Designed CloudRun-based job system for scalable asynchronous processing
• Created Vue.js frontend with intuitive dashboard for environment management
• Developed event-driven architecture using Yoga GraphQL server for real-time updates
• Built comprehensive monitoring and alerting system for environment health tracking

Impact & results