What is platform engineering?

As you may know, platform engineering has been around for some time now. Yet, there is still confusion about what it is. At its core, platform engineering provides self-service delivery capabilities to support software engineering teams within your organisation. This involves creating workflows and toolchains that are provisioned and made available in a repeatable, scalable manner. Platform engineering evolved out of the complexity of modern software applications that often leverage distributed services, web-based APIs, data streams, events, and the tools that support them as part of a cloud-native solution. This results in an internal developer platform (IDP) that supports the provisioning of delivery pipelines through an API call or point-and-click dashboard interface. Platform engineering is the essential foundation that enables the successful implementation, adoption, and management of an API programme, acting as the bedrock on which diverse applications, services, and data sources are seamlessly integrated. Here’s how to establish and grow your API efforts.