Preface
Hey, welcome to Platform Engineering for Architects! Platform engineering is the practice of creating environments that can build, test, validate, deploy, and operate software in a secure and cost-efficient way. Platform engineering is about automation, and about enabling the platform’s users, developers, and operations to focus on value creation. A platform, often defined as an Internal Development Platform or Internal Developer Portal (IDP), abstracts away the complexity of the underlying infrastructure and all the moving components required to support the software life cycle from its setup until it goes live in production. But platform engineering is more than just technologies that have to play well together. It requires an open ...
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