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- [Narrator] I hope you've enjoyed taking this course as much as I've enjoyed developing it. I always learn a lot when producing a new course, and it's a lot of fun to share those learnings. In this course, we learned about how DevOps shifted more and more complexity to developers eventually leading to overwork and burnout. The pendulum needs to swing back to the middle to a more sustainable distribution of labor among IT teams. Hence, platform engineering. Platform engineering is a practice and methodology in which a dedicated team works to combine all the complex software delivery and infrastructure platforms into one, the internal developer platform and IDP wraps and abstracts. All the complexity of the platforms used to develop and deploy software such as CI/CD, source control, and the compute and data platforms on which applications are run. Developers no longer have to deal with five, 10, or 20 different platforms. The IDP presents a single experience to simplify them all. We…

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