Why Platform Engineering Is Replacing Your DevOps Team

Gartner projects that 80% of software engineering organizations will establish dedicated platform teams by the end of 2026. That number was 45% just two years ago. If you lead a delivery organization and have not started thinking about platform engineering, you are already behind.

I have spent the past year watching enterprise clients wrestle with this transition. The ones who get it right are not just renaming their DevOps teams. They are fundamentally rethinking how developer enablement works at scale. The ones who get it wrong are doing exactly that: slapping a new label on the same old shared services model and wondering why nothing changes.