--- title: What is Platform Engineering? | Harrison Clarke description: Platform engineering is the process of building platforms that allow for the rapid development and deployment of software products. image: https://www.harrisonclarke.com/hubfs/DevOps-Culture-2.png --- Your browser does not support the video tag. # Platform Engineering Your browser does not support the video tag. ##### **WHAT IS PLATFORM ENGINEERING?** ## Platform engineering is the process of building platforms that allow for the rapid development and deployment of software products. These platforms are typically composed of common components such as databases, web servers, application servers, user interfaces, etc., which can be reused across multiple applications. This enables developers to quickly create new applications without having to start from scratch every time. Additionally, these frameworks provide access to APIs and SDKs to further speed up development time. 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