Platform Engineering, Friday, December 19th, 2025
The Metrics That Prove Platform Engineering Delivers Value
When developers choose the platform because it makes delivery faster and safer, the business sees measurable gains.
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Platform Engineering, Monday, December 15th, 2025
When Platform Engineering Matures, The Platform Disappears
A fully mature platform fades into the background and lets developers build without thinking about pipelines or permissions. Self-service, compliance, and security become automatic, turning the platform into an engine for delivery speed.
more → Security Boulevard, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
Rewriting the Rules of Platform Engineering with IDPs and EKS
Recently, we joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) to talk about one of the fastest-moving transformations in the cloud industry: how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are streamlining modern software delivery.
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siliconANGLE, Monday, November 17th, 2025
How Platform Engineering Teams Are Stepping Into The AI Operations Layer
Platform engineering teams are broadening their focus as organizations look for consistent ways to run artificial intelligence systems. New agent-focused tools, including registries, are emerging to help teams manage AI more safely and predictably.
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Platform Engineering, Monday, November 17th, 2025
Platform Teams: Stop Fixing Outages And Start Designing For Reliability
For years, platform engineers have lived in a constant state of firefighting. Pager alerts, late-night war rooms, emergency patches. These have been the rituals of teams charged with 'keeping the lights on.' But today, reliability isn't a side effect of hard work; it's a discipline built through smart feedback loops, intelligent automation and a mindset shift.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, November 7th, 2025
I've Just Been Made a Platform Engineer: Now What?
Congratulations! You've landed a job with the Platform Engineer title. Excited? Check. A touch of 'what have I gotten myself into?' Check. If that sounds like you when you got the job, you're not alone.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, October 31st, 2025
How AI Is Reshaping Infrastructure At The Core Of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is evolving. Teams are expected to deliver infrastructure that moves as fast as application code, while maintaining control, governance, and insight. Automation has helped, but it's no longer enough.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, October 27th, 2025
Platform Engineering: From Hardware Store To One-Stop Shop
Platform Engineering is the first discipline in the software space in many years that truly has the potential to enable developers and operations teams to achieve a similarly high speed of delivery without being slowed down by complicated processes and handovers.
more → Platform Engineer, Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
Hidden Tech Frustrations Cost Developers 20 Workdays A Year
Developers lose an average of three hours each week to tool failures, outages and workflow glitches - adding up to nearly a month of lost productivity every year.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, October 17th, 2025
Platform Engineering Team Leads Workload Migration Effort At Singapore Exchange
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has launched an application migration initiative that involves shifting workloads to Kubernetes to reduce its dependencies on virtual machines from both VMware and Red Hat.
more → The New Stack, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Ulysses' Odyssey: Lessons For Platform Engineering
Is your platform engineering journey facing monsters like technical debt or integration complexity? Learn how to navigate these challenges.
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Platform Engineering, Friday, October 3rd, 2025
Platform Engineering As A Product: Why IT Leaders Need To Think Like Product Managers
As organizations modernize their software delivery pipelines, platform engineering is emerging to deliver infrastructure with the same discipline and rigor as customer-facing products.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
AI In Platform Engineering: Promise, Plateau And The Path Forward
Platform engineering is eating the world. That's not my phrase - that's how the State of AI in Platform Engineering report puts it.
more → Technative, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Five Reasons Platform Engineering Is The Missing Link In Continuous Application Modernization
In 2025, modernization efforts remain central to digital transformation, and platform engineering has emerged as a critical, yet often overlooked, linchpin in that journey.
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Platform Engineering, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
How To Reach Platform Engineering Maturity
Platform engineering is no longer a niche experiment inside IT. As software delivery grows more complex, organizations are investing heavily in platform teams to reduce friction, improve security, and give developers the tools they need to deliver features faster.
more → Platform Engineering, September 16,2025
Outages And Security Threats In DevOps Tooling: Is Our Foundation Crumbling?
Every castle needs a strong foundation. But lately, it feels like the foundations of our software delivery castles - the very DevOps tools we rely on every day - are starting to crack.
more → Security Boulevard, September 16,2025
What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a foundational concept in modern software engineering. It acts as a bridge between developers and the underlying infrastructure, tools, and processes needed to build, deploy, and manage software efficiently.
more → Platform Engineering, September 15,2025
Security Tool Sprawl: The New Breach Vector For Platform Engineering
'More is better' has always been a dangerous assumption in tech. In security, it may be downright reckless.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, September 12th, 2025
How Platform Engineering And AI Improve Each Other
AI adoption is no longer limited to pilots and proofs of concept - but scaling those efforts takes more than data scientists and GPUs.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, September 8th, 2025
Platform Engineering Is About More Than What's Going On Backstage
We speak to industry experts about how they see the role of platform engineering supporting DevOps
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Platform Engineering, Monday, September 8th, 2025
Beyond The Dashboard: Making Observability The Engine Of Action In Platform Engineering
Not a decade ago, we in the cloud-native and DevOps communities were busy planting our flags on the summit of observability.
more → Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
From Prompt Engineering To Protocol Design: The Next Big Skill In Enterprise Ai
You have probably heard a lot about prompt engineering. Last year, it was the big new skill everyone was talking about. We all learned how to write commands to get AI tools to give us good answers. AI assistants and copilots are now appearing in almost every software tool we use at work.
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Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
If You Have A Platform Engineering Project, You'Re Doing It Wrong
It's September 2025, and the writing's on the wall for anyone still running platform engineering as a series of bespoke, hand-rolled projects. The 'build it yourself' ethos that shaped the early days of internal developer platforms (IDPs) now feels almost quaint. Why? Because the market - and the demands on tech teams - has moved on at lightning speed.
more → ComputerWeekly, Monday, September 1st, 2025
What Should Platform Engineering Look Like?
Platform engineering can help IT infrastructure and operations teams become faster, more responsive and empathetic with internal customers
more → Platform Engineering, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Building a Culture That Will Drive Platform Engineering Success
Platform engineering has emerged as one of the most talked-about shifts in modern IT. By packaging infrastructure, workflows and developer tools into consumable platforms, organizations can reduce friction, accelerate delivery and unlock new efficiencies.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, August 25th, 2025
Navigating AI Challenges in Platform Engineering - EP 8 (26:05)
Alan Shimel, Luca Galante and Keith Townsend explore the evolving role of AI in platform engineering. They discuss the disconnect between AI capabilities and enterprise needs, emphasizing the importance of observability and standardization.
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ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
An Introduction To Platform Engineering
It is largely recognised that current software development practices are not sustainable - platform engineering is the IT sector's remedy
more → Platform Engineering, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Futurum Signal Is Live: A New Compass For Platform Engineering
Platform engineering has always been about building golden paths-clear, repeatable routes that help developers move faster, safer, and with less cognitive overload. But here's the challenge: how do you know which platforms, tools, and vendors should be part of those golden paths?
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, August 14th, 2025
How Platform Engineering Turns Compliance Into A Built-In Advantage
For many IT teams, compliance has long been a bottleneck - slowing projects, creating friction between developers and security teams, and introducing manual processes that add risk rather than reduce it.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, August 11th, 2025
Platform Engineering & AI: The Bottleneck Is Just The Beginning
In a recent post, Bryan Ross - Field CTO at GitLab - warns that AI doesn't just produce more code; it also generates more bugs, broken builds, reviews and security vulnerabilities - posing a new quality bottleneck that every platform team must confront.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, August 11th, 2025
Inside the API-First Shift: How Platform Engineering Enables Incremental Legacy Breakup
Platform engineering is transforming how enterprises modernize legacy systems, enabling organizations to dismantle monolithic applications gradually rather than through costly and disruptive 'big-bang' rewrites.
more → Platform-Engineering, Friday, August 8th, 2025
What, Exactly, Is Platform Engineering? Do We Even Know? Maybe It Doesn't Matter
So you want to be a platform engineer? Maybe you are one already! And just haven't realized it. Platform engineering is at the center of many application development conversations today, but what, exactly, are we talking about? Is platform engineering just a job title? Is it a technology? A management technique? Merely yet another trending industry vibe?
more → Platform-Engineering, Monday, August 4th, 2025
What's In It For Platform Engineering At Black Hat
I'm heading to Vegas this week for my annual pilgrimage to 'summer camp for hackers.' With Black Hat, DEF CON, BSides and other cyber‑world events all happening this week, the security community converges on Las Vegas.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Platform Engineering: Managing The Ambiguity Of A Fast-Growing Discipline
Ask 10 developers to define platform engineering, and you may get 10 different answers. Is it a tool? A set of techniques? A job title?
more → Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Is Platform Engineering Only For The 1%?
The phrase 'Platform Engineering' gets thrown around a lot these days - usually alongside glowing case studies from Fortune 100 giants and tech unicorns. For these companies, spinning up a dedicated platform team, building golden paths, and managing an internal developer portal (IDP) is just another day at the digital factory.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Platform Engineering & Backstage: A Chicken And Egg Story
Platform engineering is at the heart of modern software delivery. It is squarely in the spotlight. But take a step back - and you'll find a situation that reminds me of the old chicken-and-egg question: Which came first, the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or the platform that enables it?
more → Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
From Pipelines to Platforms: The Evolution of CI/CD in Enterprise DevOps
The evolution of CI/CD in Enterprise DevOps has moved from simple pipelines to more sophisticated platforms. Initially, CI/CD focused on automating the build, test and deployment phases of software development using pipelines.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Autonomous Infrastructure And Trustworthy AI: The Next Revolution In Platform Engineering
As AI systems evolve from support tools to autonomous infrastructure layers, platform engineering is undergoing a fundamental transformation.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Why Platform Engineering Is Becoming Essential For Modern DevOps
As companies embrace cloud-native application development at scale, platform engineering is emerging as a pivotal discipline to support fast-moving development teams while maintaining essential control over infrastructure, operations and security.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Building Effective Data Platforms: Lessons In Flexibility, Governance And Scale
Data platforms are the nervous systems of modern enterprises. From powering dashboards and AI pipelines to enabling real-time decision-making, the ability to deliver, evolve and govern data services at scale is no longer a luxury; it's a business imperative.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Why Platform Engineers Love VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
For as long as I've been in the tech industry-and trust me, that's longer than I care to count-we've heard the same song: 'Build once, run anywhere.' It's a catchy tune, but the reality has always been a little off-key.
more → Platform Engineering, Monday, June 30th, 2025
Platform Engineering As Backbone Of Continuous Modernization Efforts
As enterprises grapple with the complexities of modernizing legacy systems while adopting cloud-native technologies, platform engineering is increasingly positioned at the center of that transformation.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, June 20th, 2025
Outsystems CEO: A New Developer Mindset Is Needed For Platform Engineering
Developers code, they were 'born to do it', to quote an erroneously attributed Dr. Seuss idiom.
more → platformengineering.org, Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Intent-To-Infrastructure: Platform Engineers Break Bottlenecks With AI
While developers are generating entire applications in hours using AI, platform engineers are still working with traditional infrastructure provisioning approaches such as templates that haven't scaled to match this new velocity.
more → ComputerWeekly, Monday, June 16th, 2025
Platform Engineering - Xtype: Beyond The Pipelines, Look At The Governance
Let's zoom out and examine the enterprise IT landscape from a less parochial vantage point. In thousands of enterprises, platform teams aren't building infrastructure-as-a-product or curating golden paths for microservices.
more → Platform Engineering, Friday, June 13th, 2025
Do You Want To Become A Fortune Teller Or A Fortune Spender In Platform Engineering?
In today's enterprise tech landscape, success comes down to whether your organization is predicting the future or constantly reacting to it. Platform engineering is the difference maker. It empowers 'Fortune Tellers' to build scalable, secure and adaptive environments while others remain stuck in a cycle of reactive spending and rising technical debt.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Here Is Why Platform Engineering May Be A More Lucrative Career Than You Think
While most of the cloud-native community talks about DevOps and its future, there is a sense of underestimation for the platform engineering stream, both as a career option and as a technological topic.
more → InfoQ, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
Platform Engineering: Evolution, Trends, And Future Impact On Software Delivery
Paula Kennedy discusses the evolution, current trends, and future impact of platform engineering on software delivery. She explains paradigm shifts, shares insights from the DORA State of DevOps Report, and explores the principles of platform as a product and platform maturity models for driving organizational performance.
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Platform Engineering, Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Unlocking The Future Of Platform Engineering - The Platform Engineering Show Ep 7
Platform Engineering is emphatically not just for the 'kool kids.' While DevOps-savvy, cloud-native organizations undoubtedly have a head start, brownfield enterprises stand to gain significantly by adopting platform engineering principles.
more → Platform Engineering, Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Mind The Platform: Closing The Developer Experience Gap
Our experiences - past and present - shape how we think, work and build. In tech, routines often become ruts. We fall into predictable patterns, following processes that no longer serve us, relying on tools and workflows that were never designed to scale.
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