Best of 2025: Platform Engineering: A First-Class Citizen In DevOps, Not Its Replacement
Platform Engineering, Monday, December 29th, 2025
In response to a barrage of emails, to both personal and work email, asking if I am looking for a platform engineering certification (spoiler, I am not), I visited a website focused on platform engineering where I found a little surprise buried way down deep at the bottom of the page, just a small icon with no description.
It was a skull icon that linked to devopsisdead.com. DevOps is dead. Dot com. WTF!?
My mind's eye was instantly taken back to a semi-traumatic event I experienced last year while doom scrolling on Instagram: A man screaming 'DEVOPS IS DEAD' in an ad. I forgot what message followed; however, this is a particularly alarming position. As someone who has made DevOps his career, I can say definitively, DevOps is not dead.