Platforms serve as a foundation for today’s innovative software solutions. These tools and pipelines provide speed and convenience to software developers, freeing them to experiment with novel ideas ...

In the ongoing quest to boost efficiency, productivity and scalability, many companies are tasking their tech leaders with undertaking platform engineering initiatives. The goal is to establish a ...

Steve Rodda is the CEO of Ambassador, a cloud-native development company helping enterprises manage microservices on Kubernetes. But some platform engineering teams do understand what’s coming. These ...

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Platform engineering emerged as a discipline because giving every developer raw access to ...

Platform engineering isn’t replacing DevOps — it’s the next critical step in evolving how teams manage complexity, scale efficiently and support developers with safer, more consistent systems.

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Not long ago, says Neil Wylie, chief ...

From websites to enterprise workloads, software is vital to modern businesses' productivity and revenue -- but software development faces serious growing pains. Today's IT environments are highly ...

Neil Graver is an executive technology strategist for CDW and a technology leader with more than 20 years of experience. Platform engineering fills a need for agencies looking to achieve mission ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. To streamline application development in support of everything ...

Interviewing for a platform engineering role can be complex, as employers look for candidates with specific qualities. Prepping for interviews can help candidates improve their chances. Platform ...

The Air Force’s Platform One, Navy’s Black Pearl and Army’s Futures Command lead the way in boosting development. To deliver cutting-edge capabilities, the military needs to bring new applications to ...