---
title: "What Is Platform Engineering?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-platform-engineering--jvx3gsnrx
source_url: https://earthly.dev/blog/what-is-platform-engineering/
type: article
source: "Earthly"
published: 2024-04-09T12:32:09.099Z
updated: 2026-03-30T02:15:53.715Z
tags: ["devops", "internal-developer-platform", "platform-engineering", "productivity"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# What Is Platform Engineering?

**[Earthly](https://daily.dev/sources/earthly)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Platform engineering improves developer productivity by providing automated tools and processes in an internal developer platform (IDP). IDPs simplify developer tasks, ensure consistency and control, and automate key DevOps tasks. Platform engineering leads to faster and more reliable builds, reduced build times, and increased developer satisfaction.

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