Platform Engineering: Managing The Ambiguity Of A Fast-Growing Discipline
Platform Engineering, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Ask 10 developers to define platform engineering, and you may get 10 different answers. Is it a tool? A set of techniques? A job title?
Or is it an entire organizational environment designed to empower developers? This semantic confusion shapes hiring strategies, muddles leadership expectations, and can determine the success or failure of entire initiatives.
At the PlatformCon 2025 conference, held in New York City in June, hundreds of experts gathered to bring some clarity to the concept of platform engineering and, just as important, to formulate best practices for successful management in this very hot arena, a market that, according to the latest SNS Insider report, will grow from about $5.8 billion in 2023 to $40.17 billion by 2032.