r/platformengineering is a subreddit with 11k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses ai, engineering, cloud, devops, and infrastructure.
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Popular Themes in r/platformengineering
#1
Advice Requests
: "What am I missing about Crossplane"
13 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I built a FREE website to learn platform engineering concepts"
10 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Build an engineering team people want to come back to"
5 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Your error budgets don’t know AI exists"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/platformengineering
#1
Ai
: "Ai makes critical thinking harder to build"
8 posts
#2
Engineering
: "How to restart your Engineering career"
6 posts
#3
Cloud
: "Infrastructure as Code Explained: How Teams Automate Cloud Infrastructure"
6 posts
#4
Devops
: "10 YOE in Support/SRE trying to break into Platform Eng / pure Devops—getting stuck in support loops. Advice?"
4 posts
#5
Infrastructure
: "Infrastructure as Code Explained: How Teams Automate Cloud Infrastructure"
4 posts
#6
Platform Engineering
: "Senior Manager production operations and SRE role vs. holding out for Platform Engineering. 11 YOE in cloud operations Devops /SRE, which way would you go?"
4 posts
#7
Ai Agents
: "Do Ai Agents make developer portals less important?"
3 posts
#8
Career
: "How to restart your engineering Career"
3 posts
#9
Developer
: "Balancing Developer velocity and security, what's your approach?"
3 posts
#10
Interview
: "Got asked this in an interiew"
2 posts
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+8k members(248.9%)
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Last updated: October 5, 2026