Driving cultural change through platform engineering at Mars Inc

The Platform Engineering team at Mars has been a catalyst for change at Mars Inc., developing a platform as a product that helps internal developers build secure solutions quickly. By emphasizing customer empowerment and a robust product pipeline, Mars' analytics platforms have evolved from immature to enterprise-ready while maintaining a quick time to market.

Focusing on a "highly aligned but loosely coupled" approach has enabled application teams in a large organization to standardize their offerings for enterprise support. Platform engineering has created a path to supportable solutions by building a large developer community through shared frameworks, tooling integration, and automation.