Platform Engineering: The Fourth Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trend of 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, Gartner's Top Strategic Technology Trends serve as a valuable guide for organizations seeking to navigate the complexities of digital transformation. This year, Gartner has identified platform engineering as the fourth trend, highlighting its significance in enabling businesses to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications with greater agility, efficiency, and security.

Platform engineering is a strategic discipline that focuses on creating self-service platforms that empower developers to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications independently. It encompasses a range of practices, including infrastructure automation, DevOps, and GitOps, enabling organizations to break down silos, streamline workflows, and accelerate software delivery.

As the demand for cloud-native applications continues to surge, platform engineering has become an indispensable asset for enterprises and startups alike. By adopting platform engineering principles, organizations can reap numerous benefits, including:

• Enhanced Developer Productivity: Platform engineering empowers developers to focus on innovation and value creation rather than mundane infrastructure and DevOps tasks.
• Reduced Costs: Automation and self-service capabilities streamline operations, leading to significant cost savings.
• Improved Security and Compliance: Platform engineering promotes a culture of security and compliance, reducing the risk of data breaches and regulatory non-compliance.
• Accelerated Time to Market: By streamlining the software delivery process, platform engineering enables organizations to bring new products and services to market faster.

At CloudControl, we are passionate about helping organizations leverage the power of platform engineering to achieve their business goals. Our robust platform engineering solution, AppZ, is designed to empower enterprises and startups to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications with ease and efficiency.

AppZ provides a comprehensive suite of capabilities, including:

• Landing Zone Creation and Management: AppZ simplifies the creation and management of secure and compliant landing zones, providing a foundation for cloud-native application development.
• Rapid Application Onboarding: AppZ streamlines the application onboarding process, enabling developers to quickly deploy new applications to the cloud.
• Self-Service GitOps & CI/CD: AppZ empowers developers with a self-service portal for managing GitOps and CI/CD pipelines, fostering a culture of automation and self-sufficiency.
• Shift-Left Security: AppZ integrates security best practices into the development lifecycle, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and ensuring application security from the start.
• Kubernetes-First Approach: AppZ leverages Kubernetes, the leading container orchestration platform, to provide a scalable and efficient foundation for cloud-native applications.
• Multi-Cluster Management: AppZ enables the management of multiple Kubernetes clusters, simplifying the operation of complex cloud-native environments.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: AppZ utilizes infrastructure-as-code to automate infrastructure provisioning and management, ensuring consistency and repeatability.
• Secret & Certificate Management: AppZ provides secure storage and management of secrets and certificates, protecting sensitive data and ensuring application integrity.

With AppZ, organizations can accelerate their cloud adoption journey, build and manage cloud-native applications with greater agility, and achieve their business objectives more effectively.

As Co-founder and CEO of CloudControl, I am committed to helping organizations embrace platform engineering and reap its transformative benefits. Together, we can empower developers, streamline operations, and unlock the true potential of cloud-native applications.

Join us in shaping the future of platform engineering and driving digital transformation through innovation, agility, and efficiency.

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Author

Rejith Krishnan is the co-founder and CEO of CloudControl, a startup that provides Platform Engineering Solutions. He’s also a thought leader and Kubernetes evangelist who loves to code in Python. When he’s not working or spending time with his two boys, Rejith enjoys hiking in the New England outdoors, biking, kayaking, and playing tennis.