What Is Platform Engineering?

This paper argues that the right way to read the discipline is not to freeze it in place with a tidy definition, but to watch it move. Platform engineering follows the application. When applications became containerized, platform teams built Kubernetes. When developers drowned in tooling, platform teams built golden paths. Now that applications are becoming agents, platform teams are building the substrate underneath them. The technology changes. The job does not. That continuity — not any single tool or era — is the story worth telling, and it is the story the platform engineering community is living out in public right now.

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