Ryz Labs/Glossary/Platform engineering
Glossary

What is platform engineering?

Platform engineering is the discipline of building and running an internal developer platform: self-service tools, infrastructure and paved paths that let product teams build, deploy and operate software without reinventing the plumbing.

Definition: Platform engineering is the discipline of building and running an internal developer platform: self-service tools, infrastructure and paved paths that let product teams build, deploy and operate software without reinventing the plumbing.

What a platform includes

Templates for new services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code modules, environments on demand, secrets management, observability defaults and a developer portal that ties them together.

Platform engineering vs DevOps

DevOps is a culture of shared ownership between development and operations. Platform engineering is one way to put it into practice at scale: a dedicated team treats the platform as a product, with internal developers as its customers.

AI platforms

Many organizations now extend the platform with AI building blocks such as an LLM gateway, model serving, vector stores and eval pipelines, so every team builds AI features the same governed way.

How success is measured

Adoption of the paved path, time to first deploy for a new service, deployment frequency, change failure rate and developer satisfaction.

How Ryz helps

Ryz DevOps engineers, Kubernetes engineers and SREs join platform teams, reporting to your leads.

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