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Michael Hickey is an Editor at Manifest. Ask IT experts about DevOps, and they’ll tell you it’s evolving thanks to platform engineering. The shift in software development philosophies addresses the ...

Modern software delivery demands speed, scalability and reliability. Yet inside many large organizations, engineering teams are slowed by fragmented tooling, inconsistent workflows and repeated ...

Gartner says “by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams” with the goal of providing a frictionless, self-service experience so developers can ...

The term platform engineering is enjoying a surge in popularity. Yet the value of the term risks collapsing under the weight of its own popularity, hugged to death by over-eager marketing folk keen to ...

Neil Wylie is the Chief Architect for DevOps and SRE within the Digital Velocity team of CDW. Developers often face a convoluted web of infrastructure and a high volume of tools to navigate. Platform ...

Platform engineering is the practice of building and operating a common platform for internal development teams to share and use for accelerating software releases. In practice, there are slightly ...

The modern product organization is constantly hitting a critical bottleneck: Platform teams are the engine of leverage, but ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to ...

Platform engineering is based on the principles of product management and the product model applied to digital and IT systems. Fast-moving digital teams show resistance to strict process frameworks ...