2024 Platform Mainstream
Platform Engineering
What Gartner Predicted
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Self-service internal developer platforms with curated toolchains, golden paths, and infrastructure automation to improve developer productivity.
4
Prediction Accuracy
4/5
Platform engineering is real but this is essentially the same prediction from 2023 repeated. Backstage launched in 2020 — the trend was already well-known. Predicting continuation of an existing trend doesn't warrant a 5.