Summary: Platform Engineering and Developer Experience (DevEx) teams are becoming popular, but they have different focuses. Platform teams typically handle broader responsibilities related to infrastructure, while DevEx teams emphasize developer enablement and productivity. The name choice reflects their missions, with some companies using terms like Developer Velocity or Engineering Productivity to describe similar functions.
It’s no surprise that local development, CI, source code management, and compute runtime are core responsibilities. These areas of work are foundational to the development lifecycle, directly impacting the speed and ease with which developers write, test, and deploy code. (View Highlight)
Platform teams tend to have a wider scope of responsibilities than DevEx teams. Additionally, while the teams overlap in responsibilities, the data suggests that Platform teams tend to own more of the work related to maintaining infrastructure and handling incidents (View Highlight)