The emerging category of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) is revolutionizing the way teams work, providing self-service capabilities that enable developers to build and deploy applications quickly and efficiently. IDPs are built on top of platform engineering principles and consist of six key areas of functionality: infrastructure orchestration, application configuration management, role-based access control, deployment management, environment management, and observability. These components work together to provide a seamless developer experience, allowing developers to spin up fully provisioned environments on demand, manage these environments at scale, and surface container logs and deployment errors. By automating transactional tasks and providing a clear audit trail of every single change, IDPs transform the way teams work, enabling a true "you build it, you run it" mindset with an entirely different ownership culture.