Platform Engineering is the next evolution in software infrastructure management, surpassing traditional DevOps practices.
Platform Engineering focuses on building internal platforms to simplify the software development lifecycle, allowing developers to concentrate on delivering features.
It is necessary because DevOps alone does not address the complexity and inefficiencies in cloud setups and tool sprawl.
A Platform Engineering team typically manages Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, developer self-service portals, observability, and pre-configured Kubernetes clusters.