Invent the Feature, Not the Platform: the business case for Platform Engineering
Access to powerful IT solutions has become a commodity. Developers can obtain platforms and services from numerous sources — AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitLab — and this accessibility should liberate them to focus on features and business value. However, this abundance of choice has created a new problem: tool and cognitive overload. Without standardisation, every team reinvents solutions for every use case, resulting in expensive, fragmented toolchains. Platform Engineering — an evolution of DevOps — solves this by delivering a platform developers can use without individuals needing to master both platform engineering and software development simultaneously.