Introduction In 2024, one of the hottest trends in software engineering is Platform Engineering. While DevOps has been the dominant paradigm for the last decade, platform engineering is a focused evolution, promising to tackle some of the DevOps bottlenecks and turbocharge developer experience. So what is platform engineering, why is it trending, and how can teams leverage it? What is Platform Engineering? Platform engineering is the discipline of designing, building, and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs)—self-service toolkits and environments that abstract away complex infrastructure, security, and operational details. These platforms allow developers to shi ...