The Failure of "You Build It, You Run It"
The original promise of DevOps was to break down the silos between developers and operations. The idea was simple: "You build it, you run it." Developers would write the code, write the Dockerfile, write the Terraform, and manage the Kubernetes deployments.
The result? Developers drowned in cognitive overload. Instead of shipping features, senior software engineers were spending 40% of their time debugging Helm charts and fighting IAM permissions. The DevOps model, as originally conceived, has failed at scale.
Enter Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering is the evolution of DevOps. Instead of forcing developers to become infrastructure experts, Platform Engineers treat developers as their customers. They build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
