The State of Platform Engineering Report
In the 2023 Edition of the State of DevOps Report, Learn What Makes Platform Engineering the DevOps Differentiator
Download our 2023 State of Platform Engineering report for insights like:
- What makes platform engineering the key to DevOps success at scale
- Why platform engineering is on the rise
- How platform engineering benefits the entire organization – when done well
- The effect of under-investing in product management skills on platform teams
Platform Engineering: Less Trend, More Tool
For more than a decade, we’ve reported on DevOps as it has emerged from a grassroots, practitioner-led trend into a massive movement of adopters, experts, vendors, and consultants. In our 11th edition of the State of DevOps Report, we’re excited to share our findings that link organizations making strong progress within DevOps to their platform engineering approach.
Nearly 80% of organizations remain in the middle of their DevOps journey, experiencing varying degrees of success at the team level but not across the entire organization.
Last year’s research identified platform team adoption as a key differentiator between those toward the higher end of firms in the middle of their DevOps journey evolution from those toward the lower end. Why do platform teams make such a difference to organizations of a certain scale and complexity? Download the free report now to review our findings.
What is the State of Platform Engineering Report?
The State of Platform Engineering Report is the 2023 edition of Puppet's long-running State of DevOps Report. It includes new survey results from hundreds of individuals doing platform engineering in industries around the world.
For more than a decade, the Puppet State of DevOps Report has been the definitive word on DevOps and how it's done across the globe. In 2023, we decided to try something new. We took a deeper dive into platform engineering, a huge trend that's been at the center of conversations in every corner of the DevOps world. Thus, the State of Platform Engineering Report was born.
What's in the State of Platform Engineering Report?
The State of Platform Engineering Report contains 40+ pages dedicated to survey results from more than 400 individuals doing platform engineering in real organizations today. It reveals what platform engineering really is, a boots-on-the-ground view of what it looks like in practice, who it's working for, and what it needs to get DevOps to the next level.
Here are just a few of the crucial insights we found:
- Highly evolved DevOps organizations are seeing greater returns from their platform engineering initiatives.
- Most of today's platform teams are centralized, meaning they support various business units rather than being embedded in one business unit.
- Product management skills are essential to platform engineering. Skills needed to be an effective platform engineer include communication, systems integration, automation, and testing.
From definitions to team structures and skills needed, the State of Platform Engineering Report is full of useful, real-world examples of how platform engineering is being used today. It also gives a picture of how organizations plan to use platform engineering in the future.
The findings of the State of Platform Engineering Report will help IT organizations figure out how they can use platform engineering to make their DevOps work better.
Learn How to Start Building a Developer Platform
Platform engineering is already being done in industries around the world. The ones who have done it the longest are finding massive success – better efficiency, stronger security, happier teams, and more. The 2023 State of Platform Engineering Report from Puppet lays the groundwork for teams like yours to understand how platform engineering can make a difference for your productivity and DevOps culture.
