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Building Platforms That Scale: A Practical Guide to Composable Platform Engineering with Fractal Architecture
Author(s): Angelo Nicolosi (Author)
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
- Publication Date: 20 May 2026
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0138340188
- ISBN-13: 9780138340186
Book Description
Accelerate delivery and reduce complexity by creating composable platforms that scale securely, empower teams, and adapt to change across cloud-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments
Enterprises today struggle to bridge the costly gap between fast-moving application development and the strict requirements of infrastructure operations. Tool sprawl, ad hoc Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and over-engineered Internal Developer Platforms often create more problems than they solve.
Building Platforms That Scale offers a new path. Grounded in Fractal Architecture, it introduces a practical model for platform engineering that applies principles from Domain-Driven Design (DDD), DevOps and SRE, and component-based software engineering to modern infrastructure as code.
Discover how to build cloud-native platforms that are modular, composable, and reusable. Platforms that evolve with your business, support event-driven architectures, and operate seamlessly across multi-cloud environments.
This book equips CTOs, platform engineers, and technology leaders with actionable frameworks to build platforms that drive velocity, compliance, and resilience.
- Understand the foundations: Explore the core principles of Fractal Architecture, composability, and platform engineering in the context of cloud-native and multi-cloud systems
- Build effective Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs): Design IDPs that give developers self-service, production-ready environments to deploy infrastructure securely and autonomously
- Empower Ops Teams: Enable infrastructure and operations teams to create reusable blueprints, governed interfaces, and automated controls for consistent governance and security
- Apply real-world lessons: Explore case studies of platform success and failure across industries including finance, retail, and software
- Support Platform Teams: Define reusable templates and governance models that scale across business units and cloud providers
- Embed day-2 operations: Bake monitoring, disaster recovery, compliance, and updates directly into your platform’s design
Build platforms that scale securely, enable autonomy, and deliver lasting business impact, across any cloud.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Building Platforms That Scale reframes platform engineering as a modeling problem, not just a tooling
one. Through Fractal Architecture and composable capabilities, Nicolosi gives platform teams a
clear language for reasoning about reuse, governance, and lifecycle. A valuable and engaging contribution
for anyone designing internal platforms to scale.”
—Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
“The more I got into Angelo’s work, the more I could relate to the platform engineering gaps I found
working with financial institutions and large enterprises. Even the best teams can’t move safely
and fast at scale when infrastructure was never truly composable or governed by design. Fractal
Architecture is a brilliant answer to that gap, and with AI workloads getting deployed, this becomes
even more critical.”
—Antonio Melé, Founder & CTO, OrbioAI
“Angelo combines deep technical expertise with rare conceptual clarity. His fractal model offers a
highly modular, scalable approach to platform development while remaining intuitive and memorable.
It supports both execution and learning, making complex architectural principles accessible
and actionable for engineering teams operating in demanding, real-world environments.”
—Martin Bakkegaard Olesen, Senior Technology Director, KMD A/S
About the Author
Angelo Agatino Nicolosi is a seasoned software architect with over a decade of experience in cloud-native architecture, DevOps, and cybersecurity. He has led large-scale platform initiatives across multiple industries and is the CTO and Founder of YanchWare. A recognized thought leader, Angelo has spoken at international conferences including DevConf and the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference.
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