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Platform engineering is a relatively new paradigm, particularly applicable to cloud computing.</p>\n<p>Platform engineers aim to build a tailored cloud platform on the public cloud, such that application developers can directly leverage the curated workflows to provision new cloud resources as the need arises.</p>\n<p>The advantages of platform engineering are scalability and focus; by creating a dedicated team managing the bespoke platform centrally, the organization can apply security and operational best practices, new features and services to the cloud platform.</p>\n<p>When the platform engineering team can create and maintain critical guardrails and dashboards to shepherd cloud adoption, application development teams can experiment, explore and deploy onto the cloud safely and efficiently. Platform engineering reduces the obstacles to realizing cloud benefits. 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