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Platform Engineering, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025

Best of 2025: Platform Engineering: Hitting $40B+ Valuation By 2032 And Finally Getting The Spotlight

Vol 333 · Issue 5 · 2025-12-30

If you've been tracking platform engineering's steady rise, it's time to buckle up. According to the latest SNS Insider report, the Platform Engineering Services market is projected to explode from about $5.8 billion in 2023 to $40.17 billion by 2032, riding an incredible 23.99% CAGR. Let that sink in: nearly four times growth every three years. That's not just growth-it's a digital seismic event.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, December 29th, 2025

Best of 2025: Platform Engineering: A First-Class Citizen In DevOps, Not Its Replacement

Vol 333 · Issue 5 · 2025-12-29

In response to a barrage of emails, to both personal and work email, asking if I am looking for a platform engineering certification (spoiler, I am not), I visited a website focused on platform engineering where I found a little surprise buried way down deep at the bottom of the page, just a small icon with no description.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, December 29th, 2025

Best of 2025: How Platform Engineering Turns Compliance Into A Built-In Advantage

Vol 333 · Issue 5 · 2025-12-29

For many IT teams, compliance has long been a bottleneck - slowing projects, creating friction between developers and security teams, and introducing manual processes that add risk rather than reduce it.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: How Platform Engineering Is Redefining DevOps In 2025

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-26

For years, DevOps has been one of the finest options when it comes to ensuring smooth collaboration between developers and operations. But, it includes various practices, tools, tickets and more.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: AI In Platform Engineering: From Automation To Predictive Analytics

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-26

Platform engineering has emerged as a critical approach for modern development teams, with Gartner predicting that 80% of software engineering organizations will establish dedicated platform engineering teams by 2026. As businesses increasingly adopt cloud technologies, AI in platform engineering has become crucial in handling complexities such as system integrations, performance optimization and technology adaptation.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: Platform Engineering Faces Myths, Misconceptions Amid Growing Adoption

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-25

Platform engineering is fast becoming a cornerstone of modern software development, yet it remains widely misunderstood. Despite growing adoption across tech-driven organizations, persistent myths about what platform engineering truly involves are slowing its progress and obscuring its strategic value.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: Here Is Why Platform Engineering May Be A More Lucrative Career Than You Think

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-25

While most of the cloud-native community talks about DevOps and its future, there is a sense of underestimation for the platform engineering stream, both as a career option and as a technological topic.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: AI-Driven Platforms: Transforming Engineering Workflows

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-24

Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to revolutionize platform engineering by automating critical workflows such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), system observability and resource allocation.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: Making Observability Work: How Platform Engineers Can Improve Monitoring

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-23

Observability has become a critical component of modern platform engineering, allowing teams to diagnose issues, optimize performance and maintain system reliability.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: How We Reduced Onboarding Time From 2 Weeks To 2 Hours: A Platform Engineering Case Study

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-22

It was a typical Monday morning when our CTO dropped a bombshell: 'We're hiring 50 new developers next quarter.' Our platform team's immediate reaction? Panic. With our current onboarding process taking two weeks per developer, we were looking at 100 weeks of cumulative onboarding time. Something had to change, and fast.

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Platform Engineering, December 11,2025

Best Of 2025: Enterprise Application Modernization And The Role Of An Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Vol 333 · Issue 4 · 2025-12-22

Application modernization has become a critical initiative for organizations looking to remain competitive in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. As businesses embrace cloud computing, microservices and AI-driven automation, modernizing legacy applications is no longer optional. It's essential for scalability, agility and innovation.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, December 19th, 2025

The Metrics That Prove Platform Engineering Delivers Value

Vol 333 · Issue 3 · 2025-12-19

When developers choose the platform because it makes delivery faster and safer, the business sees measurable gains.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, December 15th, 2025

When Platform Engineering Matures, The Platform Disappears

Vol 333 · Issue 3 · 2025-12-15

A fully mature platform fades into the background and lets developers build without thinking about pipelines or permissions. Self-service, compliance, and security become automatic, turning the platform into an engine for delivery speed.

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Security Boulevard, Thursday, November 20th, 2025

Rewriting the Rules of Platform Engineering with IDPs and EKS

Vol 332 · Issue 3 · 2025-11-20

Recently, we joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) to talk about one of the fastest-moving transformations in the cloud industry: how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are streamlining modern software delivery.

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siliconANGLE, Monday, November 17th, 2025

How Platform Engineering Teams Are Stepping Into The AI Operations Layer

Vol 332 · Issue 3 · 2025-11-17

Platform engineering teams are broadening their focus as organizations look for consistent ways to run artificial intelligence systems. New agent-focused tools, including registries, are emerging to help teams manage AI more safely and predictably.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, November 17th, 2025

Platform Teams: Stop Fixing Outages And Start Designing For Reliability

Vol 332 · Issue 3 · 2025-11-17

For years, platform engineers have lived in a constant state of firefighting. Pager alerts, late-night war rooms, emergency patches. These have been the rituals of teams charged with 'keeping the lights on.' But today, reliability isn't a side effect of hard work; it's a discipline built through smart feedback loops, intelligent automation and a mindset shift.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, November 7th, 2025

I've Just Been Made a Platform Engineer: Now What?

Vol 332 · Issue 1 · 2025-11-07

Congratulations! You've landed a job with the Platform Engineer title. Excited? Check. A touch of 'what have I gotten myself into?' Check. If that sounds like you when you got the job, you're not alone.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, October 31st, 2025

How AI Is Reshaping Infrastructure At The Core Of Platform Engineering

Vol 331 · Issue 5 · 2025-10-31

Platform engineering is evolving. Teams are expected to deliver infrastructure that moves as fast as application code, while maintaining control, governance, and insight. Automation has helped, but it's no longer enough.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, October 27th, 2025

Platform Engineering: From Hardware Store To One-Stop Shop

Vol 331 · Issue 5 · 2025-10-27

Platform Engineering is the first discipline in the software space in many years that truly has the potential to enable developers and operations teams to achieve a similarly high speed of delivery without being slowed down by complicated processes and handovers.

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Platform Engineer, Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

Hidden Tech Frustrations Cost Developers 20 Workdays A Year

Vol 331 · Issue 4 · 2025-10-23

Developers lose an average of three hours each week to tool failures, outages and workflow glitches - adding up to nearly a month of lost productivity every year.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, October 17th, 2025

Platform Engineering Team Leads Workload Migration Effort At Singapore Exchange

Vol 331 · Issue 3 · 2025-10-17

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has launched an application migration initiative that involves shifting workloads to Kubernetes to reduce its dependencies on virtual machines from both VMware and Red Hat.

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The New Stack, Thursday, October 16th, 2025

Ulysses' Odyssey: Lessons For Platform Engineering

Vol 331 · Issue 3 · 2025-10-16

Is your platform engineering journey facing monsters like technical debt or integration complexity? Learn how to navigate these challenges.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, October 3rd, 2025

Platform Engineering As A Product: Why IT Leaders Need To Think Like Product Managers

Vol 331 · Issue 1 · 2025-10-03

As organizations modernize their software delivery pipelines, platform engineering is emerging to deliver infrastructure with the same discipline and rigor as customer-facing products.

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Platform Engineering, Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

AI In Platform Engineering: Promise, Plateau And The Path Forward

Vol 331 · Issue 1 · 2025-10-02

Platform engineering is eating the world. That's not my phrase - that's how the State of AI in Platform Engineering report puts it.

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Technative, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

Five Reasons Platform Engineering Is The Missing Link In Continuous Application Modernization

Vol 330 · Issue 4 · 2025-09-24

In 2025, modernization efforts remain central to digital transformation, and platform engineering has emerged as a critical, yet often overlooked, linchpin in that journey.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, September 22nd, 2025

How To Reach Platform Engineering Maturity

Vol 330 · Issue 4 · 2025-09-22

Platform engineering is no longer a niche experiment inside IT. As software delivery grows more complex, organizations are investing heavily in platform teams to reduce friction, improve security, and give developers the tools they need to deliver features faster.

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Platform Engineering, September 16,2025

Outages And Security Threats In DevOps Tooling: Is Our Foundation Crumbling?

Vol 330 · Issue 3 · 2025-09-16

Every castle needs a strong foundation. But lately, it feels like the foundations of our software delivery castles - the very DevOps tools we rely on every day - are starting to crack.

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Security Boulevard, September 16,2025

What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?

Vol 330 · Issue 3 · 2025-09-16

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a foundational concept in modern software engineering. It acts as a bridge between developers and the underlying infrastructure, tools, and processes needed to build, deploy, and manage software efficiently.

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Platform Engineering, September 15,2025

Security Tool Sprawl: The New Breach Vector For Platform Engineering

Vol 330 · Issue 3 · 2025-09-15

'More is better' has always been a dangerous assumption in tech. In security, it may be downright reckless.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, September 12th, 2025

How Platform Engineering And AI Improve Each Other

Vol 330 · Issue 2 · 2025-09-12

AI adoption is no longer limited to pilots and proofs of concept - but scaling those efforts takes more than data scientists and GPUs.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, September 8th, 2025

Platform Engineering Is About More Than What's Going On Backstage

Vol 330 · Issue 2 · 2025-09-08

We speak to industry experts about how they see the role of platform engineering supporting DevOps

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Platform Engineering, Monday, September 8th, 2025

Beyond The Dashboard: Making Observability The Engine Of Action In Platform Engineering

Vol 330 · Issue 2 · 2025-09-08

Not a decade ago, we in the cloud-native and DevOps communities were busy planting our flags on the summit of observability.

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Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

From Prompt Engineering To Protocol Design: The Next Big Skill In Enterprise Ai

Vol 330 · Issue 1 · 2025-09-03

You have probably heard a lot about prompt engineering. Last year, it was the big new skill everyone was talking about. We all learned how to write commands to get AI tools to give us good answers. AI assistants and copilots are now appearing in almost every software tool we use at work.

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Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

If You Have A Platform Engineering Project, You'Re Doing It Wrong

Vol 330 · Issue 1 · 2025-09-03

It's September 2025, and the writing's on the wall for anyone still running platform engineering as a series of bespoke, hand-rolled projects. The 'build it yourself' ethos that shaped the early days of internal developer platforms (IDPs) now feels almost quaint. Why? Because the market - and the demands on tech teams - has moved on at lightning speed.

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ComputerWeekly, Monday, September 1st, 2025

What Should Platform Engineering Look Like?

Vol 330 · Issue 1 · 2025-09-01

Platform engineering can help IT infrastructure and operations teams become faster, more responsive and empathetic with internal customers

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Platform Engineering, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025

Building a Culture That Will Drive Platform Engineering Success

Vol 329 · Issue 4 · 2025-08-26

Platform engineering has emerged as one of the most talked-about shifts in modern IT. By packaging infrastructure, workflows and developer tools into consumable platforms, organizations can reduce friction, accelerate delivery and unlock new efficiencies.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, August 25th, 2025

Navigating AI Challenges in Platform Engineering - EP 8 (26:05)

Vol 329 · Issue 4 · 2025-08-25

Alan Shimel, Luca Galante and Keith Townsend explore the evolving role of AI in platform engineering. They discuss the disconnect between AI capabilities and enterprise needs, emphasizing the importance of observability and standardization.

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ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

An Introduction To Platform Engineering

Vol 329 · Issue 3 · 2025-08-20

It is largely recognised that current software development practices are not sustainable - platform engineering is the IT sector's remedy

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Platform Engineering, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

Futurum Signal Is Live: A New Compass For Platform Engineering

Vol 329 · Issue 3 · 2025-08-20

Platform engineering has always been about building golden paths-clear, repeatable routes that help developers move faster, safer, and with less cognitive overload. But here's the challenge: how do you know which platforms, tools, and vendors should be part of those golden paths?

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Platform Engineering, Thursday, August 14th, 2025

How Platform Engineering Turns Compliance Into A Built-In Advantage

Vol 329 · Issue 2 · 2025-08-14

For many IT teams, compliance has long been a bottleneck - slowing projects, creating friction between developers and security teams, and introducing manual processes that add risk rather than reduce it.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, August 11th, 2025

Platform Engineering & AI: The Bottleneck Is Just The Beginning

Vol 329 · Issue 2 · 2025-08-11

In a recent post, Bryan Ross - Field CTO at GitLab - warns that AI doesn't just produce more code; it also generates more bugs, broken builds, reviews and security vulnerabilities - posing a new quality bottleneck that every platform team must confront.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, August 11th, 2025

Inside the API-First Shift: How Platform Engineering Enables Incremental Legacy Breakup

Vol 329 · Issue 2 · 2025-08-11

Platform engineering is transforming how enterprises modernize legacy systems, enabling organizations to dismantle monolithic applications gradually rather than through costly and disruptive 'big-bang' rewrites.

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Platform-Engineering, Friday, August 8th, 2025

What, Exactly, Is Platform Engineering? Do We Even Know? Maybe It Doesn't Matter

Vol 329 · Issue 1 · 2025-08-08

So you want to be a platform engineer? Maybe you are one already! And just haven't realized it. Platform engineering is at the center of many application development conversations today, but what, exactly, are we talking about? Is platform engineering just a job title? Is it a technology? A management technique? Merely yet another trending industry vibe?

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Platform-Engineering, Monday, August 4th, 2025

What's In It For Platform Engineering At Black Hat

Vol 329 · Issue 1 · 2025-08-04

I'm heading to Vegas this week for my annual pilgrimage to 'summer camp for hackers.' With Black Hat, DEF CON, BSides and other cyber‑world events all happening this week, the security community converges on Las Vegas.

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Platform Engineering, Friday, August 1st, 2025

Platform Engineering: Managing The Ambiguity Of A Fast-Growing Discipline

Vol 328 · Issue 5 · 2025-08-01

Ask 10 developers to define platform engineering, and you may get 10 different answers. Is it a tool? A set of techniques? A job title?

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Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025

Is Platform Engineering Only For The 1%?

Vol 328 · Issue 5 · 2025-07-29

The phrase 'Platform Engineering' gets thrown around a lot these days - usually alongside glowing case studies from Fortune 100 giants and tech unicorns. For these companies, spinning up a dedicated platform team, building golden paths, and managing an internal developer portal (IDP) is just another day at the digital factory.

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Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 24th, 2025

Platform Engineering & Backstage: A Chicken And Egg Story

Vol 328 · Issue 4 · 2025-07-24

Platform engineering is at the heart of modern software delivery. It is squarely in the spotlight. But take a step back - and you'll find a situation that reminds me of the old chicken-and-egg question: Which came first, the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or the platform that enables it?

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Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025

From Pipelines to Platforms: The Evolution of CI/CD in Enterprise DevOps

Vol 328 · Issue 4 · 2025-07-22

The evolution of CI/CD in Enterprise DevOps has moved from simple pipelines to more sophisticated platforms. Initially, CI/CD focused on automating the build, test and deployment phases of software development using pipelines.

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Platform Engineering, Monday, July 21st, 2025

Autonomous Infrastructure And Trustworthy AI: The Next Revolution In Platform Engineering

Vol 328 · Issue 4 · 2025-07-21

As AI systems evolve from support tools to autonomous infrastructure layers, platform engineering is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

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Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 10th, 2025

Why Platform Engineering Is Becoming Essential For Modern DevOps

Vol 328 · Issue 3 · 2025-07-18

As companies embrace cloud-native application development at scale, platform engineering is emerging as a pivotal discipline to support fast-moving development teams while maintaining essential control over infrastructure, operations and security.

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