Tag: platform-engineering
All the articles with the tag "platform-engineering".
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Platforms Are Dependencies You Want to Have
Updated:Platform teams are by design a dependency for many other teams, it is how the organization can leverage implementations of common functionality and tooling.
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Navigating the Boundary Between Platform Responsibility and User Independence
Updated:Where does the platform end? Where does its users’ responsibility begin?
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Measuring the Value of an Internal Platform: Strategies and Metrics for Success
Updated:As for any product, measuring how much value your platform brings to the organization is important. Products are only worth investing in them when they…
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Ready for Automation: Must Do Before Launching a Platform
Updated:Platforms usually start as an experiment. “What would it be if we group these and these features used by so many teams in this one common platform?”
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Preventing and Rescuing a Platform from Fire-Fighting Mode
Updated:There are few things that are certain when building a new platform, but one thing that I’ve noticed in overwhelmingly many platforms is that it comes a time…
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“one-click” platforms
Updated:Platforms are supposed “to make life easier” for the teams using them. I would argue that it shouldn’t make it too easy. A “one-click” platform (one that…
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To buy or to build a platform?
Updated:I imagine this is the million dollar question.
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A platform is a platform is a platform
I have realized that even though I have been writing lately quite a lot about platforms and platform teams, I didn’t write anything to describe my view on…
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When is the right time to start a platform?
Obviously, the answer to this question is very much dependent on the context of each company. Also, I was never part of the journey of a platform from the…
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A platform is a community
Among the common patterns around platforms is that it is very hard for a platform to exist in a sustainable way without a community. If a community is…