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What Is Platform Engineering?

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Platform engineering is the creation and management of foundational infrastructure and automated processes, incorporating principles like abstraction, automation, and self-service, to empower development teams, optimize resource utilization, ensure security, and foster collaboration for efficient and scalable software development.

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How observability, application security, and AI enhance DevOps and platform engineering maturity

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DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Rather, they must be bolstered by additional technological investments to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency. However, these practices cannot stand alone.

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How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

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As organizations look to expand DevOps maturity, improve operational efficiency, and increase developer velocity, they are embracing platform engineering as a key driver. The goal is to abstract away the underlying infrastructure’s complexities while providing a streamlined and standardized environment for development teams.

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What is platform engineering?

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In response to this shift, platform engineering is growing in popularity. Many consider it an effective solution for improving efficiency and overall satisfaction for developers across a variety of organizations and industries. The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments.

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Unlock the Power of DevSecOps with Newly Released Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

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Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026. Automation, automation, automation.

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Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

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When it comes to platform engineering, not only does observability play a vital role in the success of organizations’ transformation journeys—it’s key to successful platform engineering initiatives. The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle.

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Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

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Stream processing enables software engineers to model their applications’ business logic as high-level representations in a directed acyclic graph without explicitly defining a physical execution plan. Failures can occur unpredictably across various levels, from physical infrastructure to software layers.