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Can someone explain in plain English what platform engineering is? TFA spends a lot of time criticising devops but takes for granted that everyone knows what platform engineering is.

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The keyword is self-service. Instead of engineers filing tickets that say "please deploy my application", you have a dedicated team create an internal web app or something that lets engineers deploy their application themselves, but minimizes the risk (compliance, security, stability, etc.) associated with that deploy.

This approach scales because it doesn't create a queue in front of ops.

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