The Platform Engineering Renaissance

Platform engineering is the craft that helps you build engineering platforms that reduce developers’ cognitive load and increase their productivity as they develop their products, in a self-serve manner, by providing the capabilities they need. Unlike DevOps (a culture) and SRE (an operations practice), platform engineering is a product discipline focused on building internal capabilities and interfaces for developers. Domain-driven platform engineering (DDPE)Domain-driven platform engineering (DDPE), the focus of this book, which has never been discussed at this level elsewhere, aims to achieve the same outcome—reducing cognitive load and increasing productivity further—by applying the concepts and principles of platform engineering to business domains.