DevOps is dead? Long live Platform Engineering

DevOps made “you build it, you run it” the consensus. After a decade-plus, developers found themselves coding, operating and monitoring. Platform Engineering emerged.

Where DevOps hurts

DevOps broke the dev/ops wall, but cloud-native brought Kubernetes, service meshes and Prometheus — every tool a learning tax. Developers are drowning.

The core idea

A platform team builds an internal developer platform (IDP) of self-service tooling. Developers ship from code to production without touching the undergrowth.

Key components

Backstage — Spotify's open-source IDP — offers the software catalog, template center and tech docs: create projects fast, manage services in one place.

Evolution, not replacement

Platform Engineering evolves DevOps rather than replacing it.