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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 ...

The term platform engineering is enjoying a surge in popularity. Yet the value of the term risks collapsing under the weight of its own popularity, hugged to death by over-eager marketing folk keen to ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Michael Hickey is an Editor at Manifest. Ask IT experts about DevOps, and they’ll tell you it’s evolving thanks to platform engineering. The shift in software development philosophies addresses the ...

Gartner says “by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams” with the goal of providing a frictionless, self-service experience so developers can ...

Randy Shoup discusses the "Velocity Initiative," a transformation that doubled engineering productivity and modernized eBay’s DORA metrics. He shares the technical playbook used to scale 4,500 ...

Platform engineering is based on the principles of product management and the product model applied to digital and IT systems. Fast-moving digital teams show resistance to strict process frameworks ...

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 ...