Best of 2025: DevOps Evolution: From Movement To Platform Engineering In The AI Era
devops.com, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
DevOps isn't dying - it's evolving. That's the perspective of Andi Grabner, who recently transitioned from DevOps Activist to Platform Engineering Advocate at Dynatrace. 'The idea of DevOps is transforming. I agree that it has fulfilled its purpose, but the purpose is not over. It just shifts,' says Grabner.
After nearly 20 years of DevOps, Grabner sees an opportunity to address historical confusion while preserving core principles. 'We want to solve the same problem - reduce friction while improving developer and operational efficiency. We want to automate, monitor, and share.'
Platform engineering represents this evolution, enabling organizations to scale DevOps best practices through self-service capabilities. 'Platform engineering allows us to scale DevOps best practices in an enterprise organization,' Grabner explains. 'What platform engineering does is provide self-services to engineers so they can do everything we wanted DevOps to do for us.'