Platform Engineering: DevOps Savior or the Revenge of Centralized IT?
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Platform engineering is one of those topics that can do as much to divide as it does to unite. In theory, platform engineering defines a framework that promises to enable organizations to manage DevOps workflows.
The overall goal is to streamline processes in a way that eliminates bottlenecks, encourages developers to adhere to a common set of best practices and reduces costs.
As good as that all sounds, the issue is that many teams embraced DevOps in the first place to give application development teams the level of control they needed to build software quickly. In effect, DevOps at least initially gained traction as a rebellion against inflexible centralized IT teams that historically tried to enforce standards with an iron fist at the expense of enabling application developers to experiment with new innovative tools and platforms.