Best of 2025: Platform Engineering Is Marketing, Engineering A Platform Is Real
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Everyone in the DevOps community has surely come across the term 'platform engineering'. It can imply anything from DevOps to SRE, to sysadmin work, depending on the context in which it is used. As platforms function at the intersection of human factors and technology, they are inherently complex.
Depending upon user requirements, platforms can provide coverage for many features. A platform may be bare bones and comprise a dozen Python scripts serving half as many developers; or they may cater to hundreds of developers and be procured in a multi-million-dollar deal, with dedicated teams of engineers internally and externally. In both cases, the platform exists to serve developers and unlock the promised benefits of speed and automation.
Let us take a dive into the platform engineering discipline and explore what joys await engineering teams as they adopt platforms.