How Is Platform Engineering Different from DevOps and SRE?

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With all the hype around platform engineering, there’s a lot of confusion about what it is and, perhaps more importantly, how it is different from more established disciplines like site reliability engineering (SRE) and DevOps. In fact, with many SREs and DevOps professionals moving into platform engineering roles, it’s easy to mistake them all as one and the same.

The differences are more subtle than you think, but they’re also what make platform engineering so important.

DevOps unlocked new levels of productivity and efficiency for some software engineering teams.

Where fake SRE tend to create bottlenecks for developers, platform engineering prioritizes https://humanitec.com/blog/what-developer-self-service-shouldnt-look-like and freedom.

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