Platform Engineering Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The goal is to reduce cognitive load, standardize infrastructure provisioning, and accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and security guardrails. --- 1. When to Use Adopt platform engineering practices when your organization experiences: - Cognitive overload on dev teams -- developers spend more time on infrastructure wiring than writing business logic. - Inconsistent environments -- every t…