Product Engineers focus on building and enhancing features that solve end user problems, Platform Engineers focus on the infrastructure that supports the product. Platform Engineering teams are building or buying tools to support Product Engineers and make them more efficient, productive, and happier.
While Product Engineers focus on building and enhancing features that solve end user problems, Platform Engineers focus on the infrastructure that supports the product.
Platform Engineering teams are building or buying tools to support Product Engineers and make them more efficient, productive, and happier. They’re typically making the infrastructure choices for the Product teams.
Platform engineering model is about how a suite of services needed for end-to-end application development, deployment and manage is abstracted and offered as-a-service (in the form of guidance, self-service & code) of course with necessary enterprise guard rails. This includes a set of reference architectures (e.g. how to build an Azure or AWS serverless application at high availability) with reference implementation (code).