Survey Surfaces Higher Platform Engineering Success Rates
Platform Engineering, Monday, November 18th, 2024
A survey of 1,000 platform engineers and IT decision-makers in the U.S., United Kingdom and the Asia Pacific (APAC) finds that 22% claim to have been extremely successful, with another 72% reporting they have been moderate to very successful.
Conducted by Red Hat, the survey finds overall 59% of respondents have either established (41%) or advanced (18%) implementations of a methodology to centralize the management of IT services. A full 62% reported they have set up a dedicated platform engineering team.
The top two benefits cited by all respondents are increased innovation and increased developer satisfaction, tied at 35% each. Improved response times (34%), increased customer satisfaction (33%), increased deployment frequency (32%), improved security and compliance (32%) and increased developer productivity (31%), improved application performance (31%) and enhanced scalability and flexibility (31%) closely followed.