What is Platform Engineering?
Platform engineering is a technique based on DevOps and DevSecOps principles that aims to enhance developer experiences and self-service inside a safe, regulated environment to improve each development team's security, compliance, expenses, and organizational value. It consists of a collection of tools and systems to support it as well as attitude shifts based on products.
It is the process of developing this internal platform by fusing insights from DevOps with a product mindset to produce a suite of tools. These solutions give development teams enough automation, tracking, governance, and observability to lead them to success.
But building a platform for internal developers can be cognitively taxing. Treating developers, machine learning experts, or data scientists as customers by adopting a product mindset is a crucial component of platform engineering.
Platform engineering teams create IDPs that are customized to each user group's unique requirements. They facilitate a more efficient and productive developer experience by offering resources including starter kits, summarized common patterns, and early feedback on possible problems.
To address these issues, the following set of guidelines can help build and apply platform engineering practice:
- It is important to establish a product-focused mindset.
- It is crucial to enhance discovery and reduce waste by using relationship tracking and inventories.
- Every client matters.