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Platform Engineering

Software development is slow, brittle, costly, and inefficient, leading to a continuation of the status quo around inflexible monolithic applications. Add on top of inefficiency, there’s still a general lack of developers, so the problem gets worse.

As businesses increasingly rely on innovation to serve and retain their customers, they face complex challenges in managing the exponential growth of data and technology while ensuring seamless development progress and user adoption. The problem is evident—data overload, technological complexity, scalability issues, and the struggle to drive user adoption are all too common. AHEAD accelerates the developer experience by enabling clients to deliver innovation velocity in a controlled and efficient way. 

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Growth & Adoption for Platform Engineering at Scale

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According to Gartner’s 2022 Hype Cycle, platform engineering emerged as the leading technological trend for 2023—and for good reason. Platform engineering has become invaluable for businesses as they develop and maintain their technological platforms to support their core operations.

However, scaling platform engineering is not only a technical obstacle; it is a meticulous process that requires attention to people and procedures, as well as technology.

In this whitepaper, we’ll dive deeper into the interplay between these three factors, stressing how growth and adoption strategies are just as important as technical prowess regarding platform engineering at scale.

Operationalizing the Distributed Enterprise


According to Gartner, by 2025, 75% of large enterprises will build self-service development platforms to improve the internal developer experience and drive product innovation, up from 20% in 2021. 

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Accelerating Cloud Adoption with Platform Engineering

Platform engineering has rapidly become the go-to operating model as cloud and on-premise infrastructure teams have evolved to support DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud native technologies. 

AHEAD's VP of Digital Engineering, Nick Colyer, walks through our managed solution for platform engineering. 

AHEAD Solutions for Platform Engineering Success

Platform Engineering Maturity Assessment

  • Assess engineering velocity for build & run of infrastructure & platforms

  • Identify problem areas /focus areas

  • Technology / tooling assessment

  • Automation capabilities

  • Governance & security guardrails

Success Story:
Improving Developer Productivity by 40%

One of the world’s largest commercial airlines set the goal of transforming 80% of its workloads to microservices on AWS. The aim was to overcome a legacy approach to managing infrastructure and deployments to improve their operations, customer experience, and ability to scale applications.  

As the airline company moved hundreds of applications to AWS, manually intensive deployments began to constrainGuid development teams. This meant developers had to deprioritize innovation and spend more time fixing code and maintaining deployment environments. The company needed to modernize its software delivery processes in order to continue scaling their migration to the cloud. 

The commercial airline company worked with AHEAD to accelerate its digital transformation and migration to AWS. AHEAD’s deep expertise with AWS and Harness enabled the airline to implement a successful platform engineering strategy. This included rapidly onboarding development teams to new tools and AWS services to modernize its application development and deployment processes. 

For example, Harness — an end-to-end software delivery platform — allowed the company to automate its deployment pipelines and increase deployment rates by 75%. By simplifying deployments with repeatable processes and standards, Harness has enabled developers to focus on writing new code rather than managing complex infrastructure. This has accelerated innovation so that the airline company can better serve its customers. 

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AHEAD Platform Engineering-as-a-Service Expertise

At AHEAD, we have spent years helping customers piece together all the different components required to automatically instantiate secure infrastructure in a way that is ready for developer consumption. Typically, this required a complex set of disparate tools, but with recent advancements in the industry, we are now able to accelerate the adoption of platform engineering with Harness and AWS via our Developer and Platform Accelerators.

Every business is unique, and needs are constantly changing. Our managed service includes regular office hours and a subscription to AHEAD’s Elastic Accelerate Teams that will meet your Cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, and Platform Engineering requirements when you need it most. Get your teams up to speed while you work with experts.

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