Why Platform Engineering Is The Fastest Way To Scale Modern Development
Platform Engineering, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Modern software teams are expected to move fast, but many organizations slow themselves down with fragmented tools, inconsistent processes, and teams repeatedly rebuilding the same core capabilities.
Platform engineering solves this by providing shared, internal platforms designed specifically for developers.
By standardizing fundamentals like deployment, security and alerting, platforms reduce friction and complexity, letting teams focus on delivering real business value.
Babu Srithar M, senior director, engineering at Cockroach Labs, says he most often sees velocity fail where operational friction lives: Fragmented diagnostics and observability, duplicated effort, and slow, noisy feedback loops.