PLATFORM ENGINEERING
Accelerating application delivery and business value
Platform engineering is an emerging technology approach that can
accelerate the delivery of applications and the pace at which they
produce business value. It improves developer experience and
productivity by providing self-service capabilities with automated
infrastructure operations. This accelerates a product team’s delivery
of customer value.
Platform engineering implements reusable tools and self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations. For the developer, it provides relief from the management of delivery pipelines and low-level infrastructure. It allows IT to stay better connected to business value, and business to gain better insight into the cost centre of IT. Using the CI/CD methodology works well with simple workflows. But things start getting more complex and time-consuming whenever they need to do anything beyond this basic workflow, such as:
Platform engineering implements reusable tools and self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations. For the developer, it provides relief from the management of delivery pipelines and low-level infrastructure. It allows IT to stay better connected to business value, and business to gain better insight into the cost centre of IT. Using the CI/CD methodology works well with simple workflows. But things start getting more complex and time-consuming whenever they need to do anything beyond this basic workflow, such as:
- Adding environment variables and changing configurations
- Adding services and dependencies
- Rolling back and debugging
- Spinning up a new environment
- Refactoring Adding/changing resources
- Platform engineering is about binding all of this into a paved road.
