Platform engineers can influence API development by following best practices and implementing DevOps design patterns.

Managed Service for Prometheus now lets you instrument an application with metrics once, and deploy it on Compute Engine, GKE, or Cloud Run.

When troubleshooting distributed applications, you can use Cloud Trace and Cloud Logging together to perform root cause analysis.

A career in platform engineering means becoming part of a product team focused on delivering software, tools, and services.