platform engineering and socio-technical nature of hard engineering problems
so, what really is platform engineering? Although in startups its often non-existent, most larger companies have internal developer “platforms”, a platform is an abstration over the underlying infrastructure of a system so developers don’t have to know or worry about intricate details of underlying processes that doesn’t concern them. A platform can be for many things, for getting a service online, monitoring, storing large volumes of data, developing machine learning models, serving such models etc....