What is platform engineering?
Platform engineering is the practice of delivering and maintaining internal developer platforms and/or portals that provide a development team access to any resource needed to support software development work. Platform engineering teams consider the internal platform their “product” and the development team their “customers.” The top priority for a platform engineering team is accelerating developer productivity by creating a developer experience that eliminates friction and redundant manual work.
Why is platform engineering important?
High-octane development environments, agile methodologies, and talented developers are the driving forces behind innovation for today’s enterprises. However, developers can’t build applications at speed and scale in overly complex cloud environments and with suboptimal or inaccessible toolchains.
Without streamlined and simplified access
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