Platform Engineering
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Platform engineering is building the roads so application developers can just drive. Instead of every team figuring out CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment, the platform team builds golden paths that make the right thing the easy thing.
Real Talk
The discipline of designing and building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that enable self-service capabilities for software development teams. Platform engineering reduces cognitive load by providing standardized toolchains, templates, and workflows for CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and deployment.
When You'll Hear This
"The platform team built a golden path so new services get CI/CD, monitoring, and logging out of the box." / "Platform engineering is DevOps done right — a dedicated team building tools for other teams."
Related Terms
Developer Experience
Developer Experience is everything about how pleasant or miserable it is to work with a piece of software as a developer.
DevOps
DevOps is the culture and practice of tearing down the wall between the people who write code (Dev) and the people who run it in production (Ops).
Golden Path
A Golden Path is the recommended, well-supported way to do something in your organization. Need a new service? Follow the Golden Path template.
Internal Developer Platform
An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is the self-service layer that lets developers deploy, monitor, and manage their apps without bugging the ops team.