From the course: Platform Engineering Foundations

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Platform engineering vs. DevOps and SRE

Platform engineering vs. DevOps and SRE

From the course: Platform Engineering Foundations

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Platform engineering vs. DevOps and SRE

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- [Instructor] It's important to have a clear perspective on platform engineering before we try to make it work. So let's spend some time on how it relates to other practices. As I've mentioned previously, platform engineering is an enhancement of DevOps, not a replacement. DevOps still has plenty of important applications to modern software delivery. Its principles of shift left, small batch sizes and continuous improvement are no less relevant than they were 10 years ago. These principles are not in conflict with platform engineering. On the contrary, they're critical to the work of the platform engineering team. The IDP should be developed as a product, and we should apply DevOps principles and practices to it as we would any other. Platform engineering lives in the space between developers and operators and defines a new specialty, the platform engineer. Platform engineers are the builders and maintainers of the IDP. They're also directly involved in the engineering and support of…

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