How IDPs and AI Are Democratizing Platform Engineering Roles

Internal developer platforms (IDPs) and the integration of AI are fostering a new era of democratization within software development, helping platform engineering fulfill the quest for a frictionless developer experience and a streamlined software development life cycle (SDLC).

Platform engineering uses DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to compress the entire SDLC.

Just like a large factory, where both people and small mechanisms play a key role in achieving shared outcomes, platform roles carry out specialized…