1 year ago

Infrastructure software provider https://tanzu.vmware.com?utm_content=inline-mention may be targeting developers, but in today’s market, it’s the platform engineer the company is trying to reach. “And depending on the organization, the charter of the platform teams could be very much focused around the developer experience and application operations and could be broad enough to encompass the operational concerns.”

Platform engineers build platforms that integrate developers, security teams, and operations people. A platform engineering story helps create a narrative that VMware is pushing a developer-first model encompassing a DevOps approach that includes operations engineers, application engineers, or architects with a background in systems resource engineering.

The platform teams VMware sees using Backstage have a strong developer focus, Patel said.