The tech industry as a whole seems to lack a clear understanding of QAs and DevOps processes. Is this just a trend where old ideas are repackaged as something new? Over the past decade, people have been developing tools, automation, and infrastructure, and this appears to be the latest gimmick. I've noticed many consultants promoting this concept on LinkedIn. #tech #platform
It's like building YAML solutions for other teams to abstract away the dev/ops side. Good for platform engineers themselves but suck for others.
isn't it devops all along? why this new gimmick.
LOL YAML 😂😂
platform isn’t tools or automation. It’s building core components around infrastructure pieces. Platform teams are SWEs and maybe SREs who are building things to be reliable and reusable for feature teams. e.g. a data platform that abstracts Kafka away. Also, DevOps isn’t a job, it’s a culture.
So it is “infra” but with a new trendy name
Less the infra itself but the tools for developers to manage it. Like I wouldn’t say a platform team ever sets foot in a data center but they probably would make code to “push button, get cookie cutter service that works on your infra”.
I know some people works platform team in my company and works on any technology like Spark, flink, S3, Redis, Cass*, Opensearch, devops tools look like they cover all software skills. And they are good in programming also.
Platform engineer at my first company referred to back end engineers building infrastructure and services to utilize them. Every other company it's either just been back end or infra as the title.
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Shut up and build features jr.
lol seems like someone from platform engineering 😂😂😂😂