# What is platform engineering?

DevFeed: [What is platform engineering?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-platform-engineering-12269.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering>)

Author: Luca Galante

Published: 2026-09-03T16:27:44Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Platform Engineering Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/platform-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>), [internal developer platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-platform.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-platform.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [idp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idp.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

Platform engineering is presented as the discipline of building internal platforms that provide self-service paths for software teams and increasingly AI agents. The article explains how Internal Developer Platforms standardize and automate engineering work, and how Agentic Development Platforms add infrastructure and path specifications for collaboration between engineers and AI agents.

## Source excerpt

Platform engineering is the method and discipline of designing and building platforms that enable self-service capabilities for teams, and increasingly AI agents, to automate the recurring aspects of knowledge work.