front matter
The cloud native landscape has matured to a point where we can finally start building practical solutions. A plethora of projects have emerged, each with a unique focus on solving a portion of the grander vision. We now find ourselves struggling to cobble together these disparate projects into an end-to-end product. How can we manage the inherent complexity that this litany of tools brings and construct a complete solution?
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes by Mauricio Salatino offers a comprehensive answer to this question in the form of platform engineering. The discipline of platform engineering is positioned to make cloud-native development accessible to application developers through highly productive and reliable delivery of their software to production environments. I consider platform engineering to be the crucial modern discipline that will tame complexity and deliver the tantalizing promises made long ago when Kubernetes first made cloud-native technology available for the masses.