Outsystems CEO: A New Developer Mindset Is Needed For Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering, Friday, June 20th, 2025
Developers code, they were 'born to do it', to quote an erroneously attributed Dr. Seuss idiom.
The problem is, so many software application development engineers spend more of their time on provisioning and systems planning, on debugging and testing. and on onward maintenance and management that, despite the rise of DevOps, just seems to get in the way of the core compulsion to cut code continuously. But can platform engineering change this cumbersome dynamic and, if so, what cultural shifts need to happen?
Recent Forrester research suggests that developers spend a surprisingly small portion of their time (around 24%) actually writing code from scratch. Much of their day is spent working within platforms, collaborating, testing and troubleshooting. This revelation (if it is a substantiated one) may signal a bigger shift in enterprise IT. It might just mean that platform engineering isn't emerging i.e., it's already here, reshaping how software is built.