What Is Platform Engineering?
The discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms.
Definition
The discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms.
Platform engineers typically manage CDE infrastructure, templates, and developer tooling. Adoption figures for platform engineering teams circulate widely but are usually analyst projections rather than measured counts, so we do not quote one here.
Where This Fits
This term is covered in depth on Platform Engineering for CDEs.
Building internal developer platforms with CDEs: IDPs, golden paths, Backstage, DORA metrics, team topology, and self-service provisioning.