Platform Engineering Roadmap: A Complete Guide

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It's very likely that in your daily work in the software development world, the term Platform Engineering is becoming increasingly relevant. Its ability to optimize delivery cycles, enhance the developer experience, and standardize operations through internal self-service platforms makes it highly attractive for any company seeking greater agility and efficiency.

However, we know that fully understanding its scope—from the specific benefits and adoption challenges to the crucial creation of “Golden Paths”—can be quite a challenge. That’s why we’ve gathered our latest posts on Platform Engineering.

With this content, we want to guide you through a comprehensive journey: from the fundamentals and identifying the right time to consider adoption, to overcoming common obstacles, envisioning your platform as a product with real value, understanding the importance of Golden Paths, and even taking the first steps to kickstart your initiative successfully.

Key Benefits of Platform Engineering

Is your team wasting time on repetitive tasks? Platform Engineering boosts productivity with self-managed platforms, improves collaboration, and reduces bureaucracy without losing control over security. We talk about it in this post.

Barriers to Adoption of Platform Engineering

Adopting Platform Engineering is not just a technical shift—it's a cultural one. It's not about building the perfect platform from day one, but evolving it with the needs of the business. We explain how to overcome the main barriers.

How to Release a Platform as a Product?

A modern platform should boost productivity through automation (CI/CD, testing, deployments), observability (logs, metrics), and security (secrets management, anomaly detection). Here we share the keys to achieving it.

Understanding Golden Paths: A Practical Guide

Working with relational databases in microservices environments? Simplify adoption and standardize processes without sacrificing speed or efficiency thanks to Golden Paths in Platform Engineering. We share a guide to understand and apply this powerful tool.

How to start with Platform Engineering: team, kickstart, roadmap

Starting a Platform Engineering initiative requires clear first steps. We explain how to define your minimum viable team, design a platform that proves its value from day one, and set up a roadmap for sustainable growth.

David Morales

Is it possible to incorporate the mindset of a product manager into deeply technical and abstract concepts like a Kubernetes-centric platform? My answer is yes! At Paradigma, I help cultivate a new way of understanding these challenges, focusing on developer experience and bringing attention to issues like cognitive load and the discipline of platform engineering.

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Alejandro Cavero

Obsessed with optimizing value delivery flows, the impact of our work on the client, and always viewing technology as a means to an end. A big fan of 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' At Paradigma Digital, I help foster and accelerate this growth process through Platform Engineering practices.

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