Platform Engineering

Platform engineering emerged because developers spent too much time provisioning environments, managing CI/CD processes, and handling compliance. Internal developer platforms (IDPs) replaced ad hoc tooling with standardized workflows and self-service acce

Here is a test you can run on your own organisation this afternoon. Pick a dataset that something important depends on: A revenue table, a customer view, a feed a downstream team pulls from. Now find out who owns it. You will find quickly who owns the clu

An internal developer platform (IDP) earns trust one workflow at a time and can lose it just as quickly when developers encounter a dead end. A successful launch may bring strong initial adoption, yet usage can flatten once teams discover that the approve

The shift from encouraging AI adoption to worrying about AI spend happened remarkably fast. In a lot of engineering organizations, the time between "we need to get more people using these tools" and "hold up, what is everyone doing?" was probably measured

PlatformEngineering.com is now providing a weekly platform engineering jobs report through which opportunities for platform engineering professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging econ

Telemetry can be present in every service and still leave platform teams blind when production behavior turns unfamiliar. Instrumentation proves that systems emit data; useful observability depends on whether engineers can connect those signals quickly en

Embedded FinOps Becomes a Platform Requirement Embedded FinOps is becoming a critical pillar of Platform Engineering 2.0. In episode four of The Platform Engineering Show, Alan Shimel and Pankaj Gupta of Broadcom discuss why cost awareness must move direc

Almost every infrastructure leader I talk to says they're confident they can govern AI-assisted changes to their environment. Far fewer can point to a written policy that actually enforces it. We saw the same disconnect in our 2026 Infrastructure Automati

PlatformEngineering.com is now providing a weekly platform engineering jobs report through which opportunities for platform engineering professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging econ

By 2026, roughly 80% of large software engineering organizations will have established a dedicated platform engineering team, up from just 45% in 2022. That's not a fringe prediction anymore - it's close to realized. Internal developer platforms have gone