An Introduction To Platform Engineering
ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
It is largely recognised that current software development practices are not sustainable - platform engineering is the IT sector's remedy
Enterprise software development has seen several revolutions, which began with the big bang waterfall approach of project delivery and progressed to agile methodologies. Then came the 'shift-left' mantra, whereby developers were given greater and greater responsibility to deliver their code into a production environment, leading to DevOps. These changes in approach have been needed to support developers in a world where there is an ever-increasing workload for digitisation initiatives and digital transformation.