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

heh Instacart entered the IDP naming debate arena. Can’t wait to see the LinkedIn threads saying they are doing it wrong.

How did they enter the arena? I didn't catch this yet so don't know how to unpack it.

The *<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html|I>*<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html|nstacart >*<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html|D>*<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html|eveloper >*<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html|P>*<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html|latform> :slightly_smiling_face:  Instacart (Nasdaq: *<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/instacart-to-power-the-next-generation-of-interactive-food-experiences-with-introduction-of-the-instacart-developer-platform-302100628.html#financial-modal|CART>*), the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced the launch of the Instacart Developer Platform (IDP)

Its good to know that the analogy will hold all the way down to packages that get delivered to delivery docks.

places this on the shelf between the Internal Developer Platform and the IDentity Provider.

what can i say, it’s an unbeatable 3 letters

And we need to provide fodder for IDP vs IDP vs IDP social media posts

_so we’ve had an email from the UNHCR.._

also, I’m sitting in the IdP camp as that came first for me.

Nice! If you build an IDP for a company that runs a webshop using instacart services… Yo dawg…!!!11elf
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