Discover the principles of effective development and operation of modern software systems! The book Platform Engineering offers a comprehensive view of platform engineering and can serve as a useful guide for those who want to better understand how to design and evolve internal platforms and related processes.

Platform Engineering describes an approach to developing and maintaining software platforms that connects development tools, infrastructure, and processes into a single functioning whole. The publication covers topics that can help increase work efficiency, improve collaboration between teams, and find ways to achieve more reliable and scalable operations. Thanks to the concepts and practices presented, you can more easily design and maintain in the long term a robust platform that supports faster application development and deployment to production environments.

In today’s dynamic technological world, platform engineering can be one approach to reducing the complexity of IT infrastructure and better organizing teams’ work. The book is suitable not only for developers but also for other roles involved in designing, operating, and evolving the platform.

Why Platform Engineering?

• Increased efficiency: Shows how to integrate tools and technologies for faster and higher-quality development.
• Improved collaboration: Focuses on ways to simplify communication between developers, operators, and other specialists.
• Scalability: Explains principles that can support the growth of applications and services without the need for major reconstructions.
• Reliability: Describes the role of automation, standardization, and monitoring in reducing the risk of errors and outages.
• Flexibility: Presents approaches that can be adapted to different types of projects and technologies.

Main Features of Platform Engineering

• Integrated platform: Covers how to combine various tools and processes into a single environment.
• Support for the DevOps approach: Addresses team collaboration and practices for safer and smoother change deployments.
• Automation: Discusses ways to simplify management and operations through scripting and automated processes.
• Monitoring and reporting: Describes how to gain insight into platform performance and health and how to work with this data.
• Support for scaling: Focuses on practices that can help handle growth in user numbers and application scope.