The Platform Engineering Playbook for 2026: What Changed
Platform engineering stopped being 'DevOps with a rebrand' a while ago. A look at what actually shifted in how platform teams operate, and what's still recycled advice wearing a new label.
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Platform engineering stopped being 'DevOps with a rebrand' a while ago. A look at what actually shifted in how platform teams operate, and what's still recycled advice wearing a new label.
Bolting a chatbot onto your developer portal is not the same as designing GenAI into the golden path from the start. A walk-through of where it actually helps and where it just adds latency.
Lead time and DORA metrics tell you the system is healthy. They don't tell you whether your platform team caused it. Here's a scorecard that separates platform impact from everything else.
Most IDP write-ups are success stories from vendors selling the platform. This one is about the ways I've actually watched them fail, and why the failure is rarely a technology problem.