Navigating The Bare Metal Crossroads: A Platform Engineering Perspective
Platform Engineering, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
The AI revolution has unleashed unprecedented demand for compute resources, fundamentally reshaping the infrastructure provider landscape.
While some providers like Equinix are pivoting away from bare metal to focus on colocation and hyperscaling, others are seizing the opportunity to empower platform engineering (PE) teams with the freedom to build infrastructure on their own terms. As organizations scale their cloud-native and AI workloads, PE teams face a critical decision - continue with traditional hyperscalers or explore alternatives that offer greater control and flexibility across their global infrastructure footprint.