Maturing an Engineering Organization From DevOps to Platform Team

Platform engineering is emerging as the next evolution of DevOps in growing organizations. This approach aims to reduce cognitive load on developers by providing turnkey infrastructure and deployment solutions. Platform teams build standardized tools and automation to streamline development workflows, from onboarding to production. Benefits include improved developer productivity, faster onboarding, enhanced operational security, and better cost control. Organizations with 20+ engineers working on multiple products are prime candidates for implementing platform engineering.