What is Platform Engineering? | Experts Explain Platform Engineering

The New Stack hit the road to learn about Platform Engineering from some experts and industry leaders. So what is Platform Engineering? Platform engineering is the practice of designing and combining all the tech and tools inside of an organization into a golden path that facilitates self service for developers and decreases cognitive load. As Nick Vermande of Spectro Cloud says, “Platform Engineering is really getting to the next level where you can essentially build distributed components that are brought together to help the developer manage the lifecycle of the application.” Also hear from:

Mallory Haigh of Humanitec
Aeris Stewart of Humanitec
Paul Bruce of Tricentis
Armon Dadgar of HashiCorp

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Developers wanted to have access to everything so that we did not have to wait for ops. We got what we asked for with DevOps. Now the developers understand that ops was not just trying to “slow them down” or make life harder” on them for no reason. Ops is not easy (if done well).
Platform will not be able to fix the issue with dev not wanting to support what they built. This old model of “hand-off” is the # generator of technical debt in our industry today. “You build it, you run it” is the only known cure for technical debt creation.