In this conversation, Joep Piscaer, lead analyst with GigaOm will partner up with Portworx to address what makes today’s developers successful and what factors should be prioritized in building an internal developer platform that makes data ubiquitously available across cloud and on-premise environments.This interview highlights the growing significance of platform engineers who are tasked to make services available instantly, with massive scale and high performance with a cloud operating model. This honest look into platform engineering as an emerging tech priority, can serve as a “checklist” for building internal developer platforms and making data accessible so applications can be built once, ported anywhere, and run everywhere.