[khalidx]

I've been nerd sniped! Emailed you.

Also, the current theme I'm seeing across many companies is "we have added lots of engineers/products/vendors and we need to focus on building a platform (infra, automation) that lets us ship and not get in the way".

It seems industry went from un-bundling engineers --> sre, devops, network, security, developers --> re-bundling much of this knowledge back into a new role/practice area called "platform engineering".

[wyclif]

Is "platform engineering" the new buzzword for DevOps?

[aetimmes]

It's a psyops campaign run by DevOpsers/SREs to enable them to actually write code instead of being 100% ops.

[khalidx]

Short answer: Yes.