Interviews

Over two decades, the IT sector has evolved from a standalone services market into one of the key drivers of macroeconomic stability. It’s still often described as a volatile and contradictory space — dotcoms, bubbles, AI hype, promises the market doesn’t always have time to put to the test. But something else has been unfolding in parallel. The digital industry is turning into a source of innovation, foreign currency earnings, high-skilled employment, tax revenue, services exports, and the technological modernization of other sectors.

Something remarkable has been happening in Azerbaijan in recent years. Government institutions are being digitized at a pace that would have seemed unthinkable just a decade ago. A region that 10–15 years ago was considered a laggard in high technology is not simply catching up — it is increasingly looking like a success story in rolling out digitization across a state system.

Platform engineering is a hot topic right now. Platform is a product with self-service features, providing the right infrastructure, tools, and processes that enable efficient, scalable software development, deployment, and management.  A 2025 Google Cloud/ESG research report found that 55% of global organizations have adopted platform engineering, with 90% of those planning to expand it further. In the majority of companies (85%), developers already rely on the platform.