Platform engineering is a specialized discipline within software development that focuses on designing, building, maintaining and improving the toolchains and workflows software developers use.

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DevOps created an entirely new paradigm for application development. By integrating the work of software developers and IT operations professionals, DevOps processes greatly improved the speed and ...

Platform engineering is a growing practice within technology organizations, pivotal in managing application development and delivery complexity. Gartner states, "By 2026, 80% of software engineering ...

Demand for faster application development cycles requires streamlined DevOps workflow. The emerging discipline of platform engineering provides immediate access to common, reusable tools that simplify ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Not long ago, says Neil Wylie, chief ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. To streamline application development in support of everything ...

Neil Graver is an executive technology strategist for CDW and a technology leader with more than 20 years of experience. Platform engineering fills a need for agencies looking to achieve mission ...

It wasn’t long ago when engineers configured systems manually. In those days, developers drafted procedural documents for administrators to follow when deploying applications. Devops tools and ...

Enterprise software development has seen several revolutions, which began with the big bang waterfall approach of project delivery and progressed to agile methodologies. Then came the “shift-left” ...