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DevOps for App Platforms now has a home.

Businesses run on apps built in Airtable, Notion, Supabase, Retool and Lovable. Someone has to keep those apps secure, up to date and running smoothly. The DOAP Alliance connects the people who do that work.

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App platforms changed what DevOps looks like

Systems, applications, databases, security and AI each grew their own DevOps practice. App platforms fold much of that into one product, which is why people use them. The work didn’t go away: someone still has to manage changes, backups, access and the AI agents writing to production — just done in different, yet to be defined ways. That is where the Alliance steps in.

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System DevOps

Containers · Servers · Databases

The machines the application runs on.

Application DevOps

Git · CI/CD · environments

The development and deployment lifecycle.

Database DevOps

Migrations · Backups · Rollbacks

The data.

SECURITY DEVOPS AI DEVOPS APP PLATFORMSAirtableNotionCodaSupabaseRetoolGlidemonday.comSmartsheet
  1. Security DevOpsAI DevOpsRun through all three
  2. System DevOpsContainers · Servers
    Application DevOpsGit · CI/CD
    Database DevOpsMigrations · Backups
    Together: DevOps for app platforms
  3. App platformsAirtableNotionCodaSupabaseRetoolGlidemonday.comSmartsheet
  4. The DOAP Alliance

We unite all parties in this ecosystem

The Alliance brings together the professionals responsible for DevOps on app platforms, their employers, the platform organizations, the agencies implementing and maintaining these platforms, and the partners servicing them.

All member classes →

You look after Airtable, Notion, Supabase or another app platform at work, often on your own.

Join as a DevOps professional
Who you are
Practitioners who pay for their own membership.
What you get
Once the Alliance forms: working sessions with other members, webinars, a members’ forum, vendor discounts, the annual benchmark and a job board. Pricing will depend on how many platforms you follow, starting at one.

Your business runs on app platforms, and you employ the people who keep them running.

Join as a sponsoring organization
Who you are
Employers who buy membership for their staff.
What you get
Membership seats for your team, a company profile, and benchmark results for your organization.

You build one of the platforms our members work on.

Join as a platform company
Who you are
The company behind a supported platform.
What you get
An observer seat on your Platform Steering Committee, early access to your platform’s benchmark results, and a participating-platform badge. Platform companies do not vote, and never see the exam, the survey questions or the member list.

Your team builds and looks after app platforms for other companies.

Join as a solution provider
Who you are
Agencies and consultants.
What you get
A listing in the directory, badges for your certified staff, and referrals from member organizations that need help.

You offer software or services to people maintaining app platforms.

Join as a vendor or sponsor
Who you are
Software and service companies that serve these professionals.
What you get
Sponsorship, and approved channels for sharing your content with members.
  • 01 · DevOps professionals

    You look after Airtable, Notion, Supabase or another app platform at work, often on your own.

    Practitioners who pay for their own membership.

    What you get

    Once the Alliance forms: working sessions with other members, webinars, a members’ forum, vendor discounts, the annual benchmark and a job board. Pricing will depend on how many platforms you follow, starting at one.

    Join as a DevOps professional
  • 02 · Sponsoring organizations

    Your business runs on app platforms, and you employ the people who keep them running.

    Employers who buy membership for their staff.

    What you get

    Membership seats for your team, a company profile, and benchmark results for your organization.

    Join as a sponsoring organization
  • 03 · Platform companies

    You build one of the platforms our members work on.

    The company behind a supported platform.

    What you get

    An observer seat on your Platform Steering Committee, early access to your platform’s benchmark results, and a participating-platform badge. Platform companies do not vote, and never see the exam, the survey questions or the member list.

    Join as a platform company
  • 04 · Solution providers

    Your team builds and looks after app platforms for other companies.

    Agencies and consultants.

    What you get

    A listing in the directory, badges for your certified staff, and referrals from member organizations that need help.

    Join as a solution provider
  • 05 · Vendors and sponsors

    You offer software or services to people maintaining app platforms.

    Software and service companies that serve these professionals.

    What you get

    Sponsorship, and approved channels for sharing your content with members.

    Join as a vendor or sponsor

What the Alliance stands for

The four tenets are the standard behind everything we teach and certify.

  1. Separate development from live production data. Implement intentional staging, duplication, and verification processes before changes touch active business users.

  2. Use AI to work faster, but keep human judgment in the loop. Use context engineering, auditable deployment trails, and rigorous review processes over raw generation speed.

  3. Create automated systems with automated and human in the loop oversight. Implement centralized error logging, automated unit tests, and real-time alerts across all application platform pipelines.

  4. Take control of your career and transform from a self-taught creator into a highly sought-after Application Platform Engineer or DevOps Professional capable of commanding enterprise-grade compensation.

Read the manifesto →

The nine domains we train and certify

The nine domains are combined industry best practices, with platform specific knowledge inserted where relevant. This provides a tailored expertise for each approved platform across all domains.

What we cover →
  • Core concepts
    AI

    Woven into all domains

    Security

    Oversight of Privacy and Security is essential in all domains.

  • Protect

    Backup, restore, and archive

  • Change

    Code management, deploy, rollback

  • Observe

    Schema monitoring, change visibility

  • Governance

    Users, auth, access control

  • Documentation

    In the platform and across teams

  • Data

    Cleansing, hygiene, integrity

  • Integrate

    What connects, and how, securely

  • Support

    Ability to address the training and feedback of end users

  • Agents

    Agent Ops: permissions, oversight, audit

Track how your practice compares with industry best practices

The State of DevOps for App Platforms survey asks how you protect, change and document the apps your business runs on. Finish it and you get your DOAP Score straight away. Everyone’s answers together give each platform its own score in the annual report.

Take the surveyAbout the survey
Your answersThe surveyYour answers, nine domains.
Your DOAP Scorenow
How strong you are as a practitioner of DevOps for app platforms. One number out of 100.
Platform DOAP ScoreReleased in our survey report
How well your platform supports people in this role, from everyone’s answers for it together. Published with its report.
Where your DOAP Score lands0 to 100, four tiers
Your DOAP ScoreInstant feedback on completion
  • Building
  • Scaling
  • Optimizing
  • Leading

Six scored practices, each 0 to 3, expressed out of 100. You get yours the moment you finish; the rubric is published with the report.

Your strength in DevOps practices.

Platform DOAP ScoreReleased in our survey report
  • Building
  • Scaling
  • Optimizing
  • Leading

The platform’s overall strength, as told by its users.

  • Now open

Find your platform and reserve your spot now.

Each platform opens in the Alliance once twenty people register for it. Register for yours, and share it so it gets there sooner.

Reserve your spot
All 49 platforms →
Backend as a service4 platforms
ConvexFirebaseSupabaseXano

What the Alliance stands for

Read the mission statement →
01Training

A curriculum across nine domains, platform-neutral at the core and platform-specific where it matters.

02Certification

A certification for each Alliance platform (DOAP-AT, DOAP-MON and so on), written by that platform’s certification working group.

03Community

A place for the person who is “the Airtable person”, or the Notion person, or the Supabase person, and has never met another one.

04Career growth

A credential employers recognize, in a community of people who do the same job, and a clearer path to your next role.

Common questions

01What does membership cost?

Nothing yet, and nothing is charged before 2027. The join form asks what you would expect to pay, and that sets the tiers. Individuals pay for themselves; organizations pay per seat; platforms, agencies and vendors pay per organization.

02Is this only for Airtable?

No. The survey is for every platform: you say which ones you answer for, and each platform gets its own report. Forty-eight platforms are in scope, and each one moves forward when twenty people register for it and a five-person steering committee is ready to seat.

03Who owns the Alliance?

Nobody who sells to you. It is being formed as a standalone benefit corporation, operated under contract by Openside, with Baseout as a founding partner on published, non-exclusive terms and BuiltOnAir as a community partner. None of them owns it, and the operating contract is disclosed.

04How is this different from a vendor’s certification?

A vendor certifies its product. DOAP certifies the practice: nine domains, platform-neutral at the core, written by the practitioners who do the work. No product names in the exam, and nobody who drafts exam content trains on it for pay.

05What happens to my survey answers?

You get your DOAP Score the moment you finish. Your answers go into the State of DOAP report in aggregate; the rubric is published with it, and no answer is shown against a name or a company.

06What if twenty people never join for my platform?

Then that platform stays collecting interest, and you are not charged for it. The Alliance itself launches when three platforms reach twenty; if that never happens, the pledges stay pledges and nobody pays for an institution that did not form.

07Can I propose a platform that is not listed?

Yes. There is one inclusion test: you build and operate an application on it, rather than only run code there. Propose it, it goes under review, and it opens the same way as every other one.

08When does certification open?

After the Alliance forms, which is targeted for Summer 2027. The curriculum and the exam follow the nine domains the survey already measures, so the survey is the first step toward it.

Launching 2027

Join as a Founding Member today.

Each platform opens when twenty people register for it. Joining is free, and nothing is charged before 2027.

Join todayHow this started
  1. Sep 2026 · nowFounding members join

    Gathering initial interest: your name on the join form, and the first survey open, for every platform.

  2. Q1 2027First survey opens

    The industry report, the rubric published with it, and the first benchmark.

  3. Summer 2027The Alliance forms

    Three platforms at twenty, steering committees seated, the benefit corporation filed.

  4. AfterCertification opens

    The exam follows the nine domains the survey measures.

Join todayHow this started