Building a successful platform engineering practice
Summary
Organizations looking to remain competitive and relevant in today’s fast-paced world need to focus on setting up processes that enable development teams to build and deliver software faster. Successful platform engineering requires putting policies and guardrails in place that help ensure security without creating added barriers and complexity. Platform engineering can help establish app patterns for environments, ensuring that applications scale to meet user needs and remain highly available. This requires a shift in mindset towards enabling DevOps to achieve self-service, which makes the platform engineering team as efficient, effective, and in control of the environment as possible. The DevOps persona has emerged from this shift, and organizations should consider adopting the best practices and governance of platform engineering teams to help streamline the deployment process.