Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: Why This Is the Wrong Question

DevOps transformed software delivery by breaking down silos, normalizing continuous delivery and making shared ownership of production the standard. But at enterprise scale, teams often practice DevOps differently, creating inconsistency and friction. Platform engineering addresses that problem by turning delivery into an internal product, with self-service platforms, golden paths, embedded security, provisioning, observability and compliance built into the developer experience.

The key point is that platform engineering does not replace DevOps. It gives DevOps a consistent, scalable foundation across the enterprise. As internal developer platforms become the common delivery layer, DevOps increasingly defines the operating model while platform engineering provides the product that puts it into practice. This paper explores how the two disciplines are converging into a more unified approach to software delivery.

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