Being able to speedily adapt your business to the ever-changing landscape and demands of modern business is what really sets high flyers apart from the rest of the pack. Going to the cloud is often a key first step on this journey, but many businesses often get stuck after this point. Some get bogged down by the myriad of technical choices available. Others struggle to find suitable operating models that balance the freedom for  innovation and experimentation, with the more rigorous demands of security, costs and compliance. Whatever the reasons, many find the promise and agility of the cloud falling short of expectations.

Platform engineering is a socio-technical discipline aimed at empowering and making life easier for internal development teams to build, deploy and run modern cloud native applications. This is important because when done well, it can result in a significant increase in productivity, which translates into the faster delivery of your technical changes to market, and in some cases a positive impact on your bottom line too.