What is Platform Engineering?
Building and maintaining internal developer platforms that accelerate software delivery.
Platform Engineering is the discipline of designing and building internal developer platforms (IDPs) — self-service toolchains, workflows, and infrastructure abstractions that enable development teams to build and ship faster without deep infrastructure expertise. Platform teams build golden paths: opinionated, supported ways to do common tasks. Backstage (from Spotify) is the most popular open-source framework for building internal developer portals.
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