--- title: "Platform Engineering Is Not Just about the Tools" url: https://daily.dev/posts/platform-engineering-is-not-just-about-the-tools-r0eob7nbs source_url: https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-is-not-just-about-the-tools/ type: article source: "The New Stack" published: 2024-03-28T17:11:54.219Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z tags: ["devops", "platform-engineering", "continuous-improvement"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Platform Engineering Is Not Just about the Tools **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Platform engineering involves more than just tools and components. It requires stakeholder involvement, understanding user needs, team skilling and diversity, internal evangelism, metrics-driven decision making, and feedback loop and user engagement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#platform-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/platform-engineering), [#continuous-improvement](https://daily.dev/tags/continuous-improvement) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/platform-engineering-is-not-just-about-the-tools-r0eob7nbs)