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Myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn't

We present five common myths about platform engineering — what it is and what it isn’t — that we've heard when folks aren't considering the whole picture.

Platform engineering starts with modeling the process (or an improved version of it) that you have today and building software to do it for you, instead of requiring every team to become experts in DevOps practices. Generally, when people deride something as "just automation" they're referring to large numbers of trivial shell scripts that often break. You simply can’t have deep knowledge at both the infrastructure and application layer when you have hundreds or thousands of microservices spread across many fleets of compute resources to manage.

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