5 Lessons on the Evolution From DevOps to Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is an evolution of DevOps that enables true DevOps at scale. It simplifies cloud complexity by abstracting and managing complexities such as containerization, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code. Platform engineering unlocks developer autonomy by providing a self-service platform with golden paths, consolidation, standardization, scalability, and treating the internal developer platform as a product. Adoption requires key stakeholder buy-in through strategies like starting with experienced teams, driving cultural transformation, highlighting immediate benefits, and empowering software development. Platform engineering is becoming increasingly essential for large-scale organizations to overcome traditional DevOps limitations and drive significant organizational transformations in processes, productivity, and security.