Platform Engineering Is About More Than What's Going On Backstage
Platform Engineering, Monday, September 8th, 2025
We speak to industry experts about how they see the role of platform engineering supporting DevOps
Puppet's 2024 State of DevOps report was subtitled 'the evolution of platform engineering'. Platform engineering, it said, can be a 'barrier against the chaos of tools, tasks and information' assailing developers - a state of overload, which some would attribute to the lack of discipline in DevOps.
Or, as Paula Kennedy, co-founder of platform consultancy Syntasso, says, it is the practice of taking 'an intentional, focused' approach to curating the combination of infrastructure, services, capabilities and tooling needed to make software available.