The discipline of designing toolchains and workflows to prepare a developer platform for internal use.
Platform engineering is the practice of designing and maintaining tools, services, and workflows that help developers build, deploy, and run software efficiently. It focuses on creating a stable environment that developers can rely on. Platform engineers work in the background to simplify complex development tasks. They build internal platforms that handle things like cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems. This helps developers focus on coding without worrying about the technical setup or deployment process.