Platform Engineering Is Failing — Here’s Why Infrastructure Comes First

We’re now several years into the adoption of platform engineering, which has been widely accepted as the best way for organizations to accelerate software development and transition to modern software methods. Gartner expects that by 2026, around 80% of organizations will have a dedicated platform engineering team.

However, despite significant attention and some notable successes, many organizations have found that their initial platform engineering efforts aren’t meeting their expectations. This is happening not because platform…