Platform engineering teams have a growing vocabulary drawn from Team Topologies and IDP literature. These exercises cover the collocations used when building internal tooling, providing golden paths, and enabling developer self-service.
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The platform team's primary objective this year is to ___ that saves developers hours of manual setup.
Build internal tooling is the standard platform engineering collocation for constructing developer tools for internal use. 'Build' conveys the engineering effort involved in creating robust, production-grade tooling. 'Create' is close; 'make' is too informal; 'develop' is also acceptable but 'build' is the dominant term in platform engineering literature.
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The team created a service template and onboarding guide to ___ for bootstrapping new microservices.
Provide a golden path is the platform engineering collocation for offering a recommended, pre-approved workflow that teams can follow without making low-level infrastructure decisions. 'Provide' implies making it available and supported. 'Build' and 'define' refer to creating the path; 'provide' emphasises offering it to consumers.
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The internal developer portal was designed to ___ so teams could provision infrastructure without filing tickets.
Enable developer self-service is the canonical platform engineering collocation for building systems that allow teams to provision and configure resources independently. 'Enable' implies creating the capability. 'Allow' and 'support' are weaker; 'provide' focuses on delivery rather than empowerment.
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Standardised environments and pre-built templates help teams ___ by eliminating configuration decisions.
Reduce cognitive load is the standard platform engineering and UX collocation from Team Topologies and related literature. 'Reduce' is the established verb in this phrase. 'Lower', 'decrease', and 'minimise' are grammatically correct alternatives but less idiomatic in the specific platform engineering context.
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The team's roadmap for Q3 includes a plan to ___ with service catalogue, docs, and scaffolding in one place.
Ship a developer portal is the tech-industry collocation that emphasises delivering the portal to internal users. 'Ship' conveys completion and delivery to consumers. 'Build' and 'create' describe the construction; 'launch' is also used; 'ship' is the collocation that platform engineering teams use when celebrating delivery.