How To Reach Platform Engineering Maturity
Platform Engineering, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Platform engineering is no longer a niche experiment inside IT. As software delivery grows more complex, organizations are investing heavily in platform teams to reduce friction, improve security, and give developers the tools they need to deliver features faster.
But many teams start out with what experts call 'rainbow teams' - overloaded with every task under the sun and stretched thin across operations, cloud provisioning and firefighting.
Platform engineering maturity is achieved when the platform becomes invisible to developers and accelerates delivery instead of slowing it down.
'Platform engineering maturity shows up when the platform feels invisible to developers, it just works,' says Derek Ashmore, AI enablement principal at Asperitas.