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What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

In response to this shift, platform engineering is growing in popularity. The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. Platform engineers design and implement these platforms, as well as ensure their security, scalability, and reliability.

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Unblock Your Software Engineers With Unblocked

DZone

Most engineering organizations face the dilemma of ensuring the new developer gets the support they need without slowing down the rest of the team too much. During this time, the developer will have many questions (as they should)! However, those questions interrupt other team members who must stop what they’re doing to provide answers.

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

Dynatrace

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.

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Platform engineering: Empowering key Kubernetes use cases with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Today, speed and DevOps automation are critical to innovating faster, and platform engineering has emerged as an answer to some of the most significant challenges DevOps teams are facing. It needs to be engineered properly as a product or service, and it needs automation, observability, and security in itself.”

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Embracing Resilience: The Power of Chaos Engineering

DZone

But chaos engineering stands out for its exceptional capacity to identify weaknesses and proactively fortify systems. The rise of a new discipline known as chaos engineering is a result of the increased complexity combined with the constant demand for reliability and resilience.

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The platform engineer role: A game-changer or just hype?

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering first emerged to address cloud computing’s new performance needs. Today, the platform engineer role is gaining speed as the newest byproduct of scaling DevOps in the emerging but complex cloud-native world. Understanding the platform engineer role DevOps is a constantly evolving discipline.

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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go.