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I'm Brian Walt's Head of the Global Field CTO Organization at GitLab. Platform Engineering is a powerful strategy that allows teams to achieve more with less. Here's how it drives impact. First, it accelerates the speed to market by creating standardized workflows across all the development teams. It also enhances security by reducing the attack surface area. Finally, it creates a better developer experience by creating these optimized golden pathways that makes end to end development smoother. But success starts. With the actual culture, platform team need to operate like product teams, where the developers are the customers. That should be measured in terms of business impact. Translating those metrics into dollar value. The trend is only growing. In 2026, Gardner believes that 80% of large software organizations are going to have a platform team. Learn more about platform engineering and how it drives value. Check out my full article on the source.