Survey Surfaces Significant Platform Engineering Gains
Platform Engineering, Monday, November 11th, 2024
A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds that 61% of respondents work for organizations that are already applying platform engineering principles across all or some element of their IT operations.
Conducted by Techstrong Research, the survey cites improving developer productivity (59%), the need for standardization of configurations (58%), reducing costs (51%), decreasing the increased complexity of modern applications (49%) and improving security (48%) as the primary drivers of adoption.
Mitch Ashley, principal analyst for Techstrong Research, said platform engineering extends the principles of DevOps in a that drives a developer-as-customer culture among IT operations teams. That approach promises to reduce the overall level of cognitive load on developers that should be spending more time, for example, creating business logic, he noted.