What it takes to be a Platform Engineer in 2020
Platform Engineering is something that grew out of a mix of what software developers and sysadmins had been doing for years. The only real difference is that most software these days either lives somewhere in some cloud or various services that support it do. Meaning that someone needs to design it, scale it and support it. This is not traditionally within the scope of a software engineer’s day job and requires a range of specialisms oftentimes not found with a developer’s direct focus....