The Expanding Horizon Of Platform Engineering: Devops-Focused Or Beyond?
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Platform engineering has emerged as a cornerstone of modern IT operations, creating standardized and reusable infrastructure to streamline workflows, automate processes and enable efficient development cycles.
Traditionally, platform engineering efforts have been closely tied to DevOps, aimed at providing robust, self-service platforms for application delivery teams. However, as organizations expand their technological capabilities to include data science, observability and other IT functions, an important question arises: Should platform engineering focus exclusively on serving DevOps teams, or should it cater to the broader spectrum of IT needs?
As part of my research for the launch of PlatformEngineering.com I came upon an excellent blog over at the CNCF, by Giulio Roggero. I highly recommend reading and digesting that blog. Roggero's vision for what might be called Platform Engineering ++ is compelling.