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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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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. A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications.

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Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for Data Engineering Projects: A Comprehensive Guide

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Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. Traditionally, this process involved manual configuration, leading to potential inconsistencies, human errors, and time-consuming deployments.

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How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace

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

Dynatrace

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Dynatrace

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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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.”