What Does Platform Engineering Mean to You, Marcos?
The objective of platform engineering is to make developers' life easier. The ultimate goal doesn't need to be to build or ship a platform, Marcos says. "To me, I don't see any specific, relatable, deliverable with the term and basically the goals that I need to achieve," he adds.
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Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software engineers.
Today we talk with Marcos about the hard parts of platform engineering.
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