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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It’s the important element that tech is only half of the IDP. The cultural change (i.e the treatment of the IDP as a product, and developers as customers of the platform team) is just as important.

Platform engineering is about more than just tooling, it’s a cultural shift as well.