Do We Still Need To Explain What Platform Engineering Is?
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
The question 'What is Platform Engineering?' continues to echo across tech blogs, webinars and discussions, despite the dramatic rise and increasing clarity surrounding the discipline over the past three to four years.
Sites like Dynatrace diligently maintain pages explicitly answering this query. Even Google's Gemini AI confidently delivers explanations designed to clarify the essence of platform engineering. After considerable advancements, do we still need to explain what platform engineering is, or can we finally move past definitions and onto practical applications and innovations?
In the early years of DevOps, countless hours and considerable headspace were consumed with trying to define exactly what DevOps was-and wasn't. The industry saw endless debates, often heated, about tools versus culture, automation versus collaboration, and countless other details. Definitions varied from company to company, and from one expert to another, highlighting the inherent complexity and squishy nature of DevOps as a concept.