1 year ago

You don’t have to be an industry analyst to know that https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering is a pretty hot topic right now; it’s arguably the topic of the moment in software engineering. If it’s hot, that’s because it’s causing a stir, not because it has matured and settled into established mainstream practice.

Platform engineering, then, allows organizations to be deliberate in how they support and enable development teams by building an Internal Developer Platform.

“Many, many platform engineering teams start with building a fancy UI like a developer portal on top of something,” von Grünberg said.

Von Grünberg is eager to make the distinction between developer portals and internal developer platforms clear: “A developer portal is not an internal developer platform.”