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

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FWIW there is also a backstage day at Kubecon/CNCF, and there are at least VMware and Red Hat also discussing the topic (though I don’t agree with much of what they have to say)

<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/backstagecon/|https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/backstagecon/>

And a CNCF working group that has been collaborating for over a year on some awesome outputs:

<https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/|https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/>

(And soon a <https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/pull/464|maturity model>!)