Why Platform Engineering Is Becoming Essential For Modern DevOps
Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
As companies embrace cloud-native application development at scale, platform engineering is emerging as a pivotal discipline to support fast-moving development teams while maintaining essential control over infrastructure, operations and security.
Rather than replacing DevOps, platform engineering offers a structured foundation that helps organizations standardize internal tooling, reduce complexity and deliver consistent, scalable developer experiences.
'Platform engineering is becoming essential for modern DevOps because it brings structure to the chaos,' says Kiran Madhunapantula, COO of product and platform engineering at Xebia. 'As organizations scale, teams need consistent, secure and repeatable ways to build and ship software without getting bogged down in red tape.'