Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

Hi folks! I was hoping to spark some conversation here selfishly because I am interested in successes, learnings, and different perspectives and opinions.

What does the perfect platform engineering team look like to you? :thread:

The team that I work with had a pretty deep conversation about strategic initiatives and growth. One of the questions that came up was "what does PE of the future look like?"

I didn't have a good answer so now I'm trying to figure it out. I can read and Google, but I'm very very interested in this community's experience(s)

The perfect platform engineer is 10 years of production operations experience and proficient development background. The unicorn :slightly_smiling_face:

In my opinion it comes down to empathy and a passion for improving reliability, automation, observability and developer experience combined with enough time in the trenches to know what patterns and tools work and what is just cargo culting.

Platform engineering team of any organisation is tailored to the organisation’s developer needs. 