Cloud & Infrastructure OpsLast reviewed 2026-09-15
Platform Engineering
Building golden paths and internal platforms so product teams ship safely by default.
Overview
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Platform Engineering productizes the paved road: an internal platform where the secure, observable, deployable path is also the easiest one. Product teams consume infrastructure through self-service golden paths; platform teams treat those paths as products with users, roadmaps, and adoption metrics — not ticket queues.
OpsRoadmaps assesses it through golden-path adoption (what share of production services were born on the platform), self-service provisioning lead time, platform reliability treated with the same SLOs as product, and the feedback loop between platform users and the platform roadmap.
Practices
Toil Budgeting
Measuring and capping manual operational work to fund automation.
Architecture patterns
Reference architectures and their trade-offs live in the blueprints library.
Maturity
Maturity for platform engineering is measured, not guessed — every score traces to your answers. See how maturity is scored.
Put it to work
Related Ops disciplines
- DevOps
DevOps is enabled by this area
Sources
- Tier 2 — AuthoritativeCNCF Cloud Native Definition ↗— CNCF(verified 2026-09-15)