Practice English vocabulary for developer onboarding on internal platforms: time-to-first-PR, scaffolding, developer portals, and golden path automation.
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The platform team reduced the time it takes a new hire to open their first meaningful code change to just one day. Which phrase is correct?
'Time-to-first-PR' is the standard metric for developer onboarding speed — how quickly a new developer can open their first pull request. It measures platform efficiency and onboarding quality.
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The platform has a tool that generates all the files, configuration, and boilerplate for a new microservice in 10 minutes. What is this tool called?
A 'scaffolder' (or scaffolding tool) generates the initial structure of a new service — files, config, CI pipelines, README — from templates. Backstage's Software Templates use this term.
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New hires use a web interface to browse documentation, run self-service workflows, and discover internal services without asking colleagues. What is this interface called?
A 'developer portal' (like Backstage) is the self-service web interface that centralizes documentation, service catalog, onboarding guides, and tooling — replacing tribal knowledge with structured discovery.
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The platform provides a pre-approved, automated path for building and deploying services that removes 40 manual configuration steps. What is this called?
The 'golden path' is the opinionated, platform-approved way to build and deploy software. It encodes best practices into automation, dramatically reducing the manual steps required from developers.
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A new engineer joined on Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, they deployed their first change to a non-production environment using the platform's self-service tools. What does this demonstrate?
'Rapid time-to-first-deployment' shows the platform enables new developers to go from joining to shipping quickly. Reducing this metric is a key goal of internal developer platforms.