1 year ago

Platform engineering is the newest sociotechnical discipline to arise in response to the cloud native world. Read on to learn what platform engineering is, when it’s needed, and how to leverage it to increase team velocity without increasing developer burnout.

Platform engineering is the discipline of building workflows, toolchains, platforms and documentation to support application teams in their delivery of business value. The platform engineering team sits on the horizontal, serving cross-company needs so the vertical application teams’ can serve their end users.

Platform engineering is the discipline of abstracting out any infrastructure or toil that distracts from DevOps teams delivering their domain.