Will designing tools and workflows to bring self-service to software development help developers work more efficiently? A growing number of adopters think so. By John Edwards.
Platform engineering focuses on tasks designed to help application developers work more efficiently, such as setting up staging environments, readying CI/CD pipelines, and configuring infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate cloud resource provisioning.
With a renewed focus on cost efficiency, organizations have come to realize that significant value can be derived from improved developer productivity and engineering effectiveness, especially in making R&D dollars go further. Platform engineering’s primary benefit is giving developers an experience that features the same ease-of-use intended for business users and consumers, ultimately making them more productive.
Since platform engineering draws from DevOps and CI/CD practices, a good way to begin is to become adept in managing DevOps tools, frameworks and technologies. As platform engineering tends to align with cloud computing, microservices, and orchestration, organizations should focus on building a portfolio focused on automation in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Good read!
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