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

well if you think about it, it’s the best way to implement scalable, repeatable devops best practices. (hence the joke) 

the goal is the same, improve developer productivity and developer experience, reduce time to market for new features, and assure quality and best practices are applied across the board 

of course it’s much more because instead of providing a service to each team, you build an internal product