r/platform_engineering is a subreddit with 6k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses platform engineering, platform, engineering, kubernetes, and devops.
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Popular Themes in r/platform_engineering
#1
Advice Requests
: "After 20 years in CI/CD Engineering, I've started documenting my approach to CI/CD pipeline architecture. What do you think?"
18 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Developer self-service portal for Kubernetes/Helm"
13 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Anyone else finding it increasingly difficult?"
13 posts
#4
Ideas
: "any good platform engineering projects i can do today?"
4 posts
#5
News
: "newly open-sourced Internal Developer Platform by Electrolux"
4 posts
#6
Self-Promotion
: "New open-source programming language for platform engineering by the creator of the CDK"
2 posts
#7
Opportunities
: "From Legacy IT to Platform Engineering: How IT Services Firms Can Lead (Not Lag) the Shift"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/platform_engineering
#1
Platform Engineering
: "Schema change management for Platform Engineering teams"
51 posts
#2
Platform
: "newly open-sourced Internal Developer Platform by Electrolux"
47 posts
#3
Engineering
: "After 20 years in CI/CD Engineering, I've started documenting my approach to CI/CD pipeline architecture. What do you think?"
34 posts
#4
Kubernetes
: "Developer self-service portal for Kubernetes/Helm"
29 posts
#5
Devops
: "106k Devops Jobs - You can immediately apply!"
26 posts
#6
Ai
: "Who is actually letting Ai touch their production Infrastructure?"
26 posts
#7
Cloud
: "🔥 KEBAP Stack: A Cloud Native Approach to Platform Engineering"
22 posts
#8
Testing
: "Do you consider End to End Testing as part of the platforms engineering domain?"
16 posts
#9
Observability
: "[Cross post] How do yall do self service for Observability for Devs?"
15 posts
#10
Aws
: "Feedback wanted: I built an Aws attack surface management tool"
15 posts
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Last updated: June 22, 2026