Platform engineering 2.0: An evolution for the AI era

Platform engineering has crossed the adoption threshold, but the platforms most teams are running were built for a different era. As AI workloads, autonomous agents, and cost volatility converge, the discipline faces its most significant evolution yet. This report, produced by Weave Intelligence and commissioned by Broadcom, defines what that evolution looks like.

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What’s inside the report?

‍Platform engineering has crossed into the AI era. This report lays out a five-pillar framework for evolving your platform to serve AI workloads, autonomous agents, and the full organisation, without abandoning the foundations you have already built.

‍Key takeaways

  • Platform Engineering 2.0 is evolution, not revolution. It extends Platform as Product, golden paths, and self-service IDPs rather than replacing them.
  • AI is both the forcing function and the opportunity, introducing new workloads and a new class of platform user.
  • The IDP evolves into an Agentic Development Platform: same operating model, expanded substrate for humans and agents.
  • The platform must serve more than developers, with security, data, FinOps, business, and AI agents as first-class personas.
  • Cost becomes a first-class signal, moving from rear-view reporting to decisions made at provisioning time.

And much more, from how the forces that make this evolution necessary to the next steps you need to take a team to advance forward.

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