Search for a command to run...
Articles tagged with #platform-engineering
Microservices are often sold as an obvious upgrade. Autonomy. Scalability. Faster delivery. For many organisations, they deliver exactly that, at least initially. What's discussed less is the cost sid
Defining success for a platform product is harder than for a feature product. There maybe no single user journey. No conversion funnel. Success doesn't show up the day after launch. That's why many pl
Platform teams love adoption metrics. More teams onboarded. More services integrated. More usage across the organisation. It looks like success. Often, it's a trap. Adoption without value is just dist
Reuse is often treated as a technical problem. Build the right abstraction. Create a shared service. Publish an API. Then wait for teams to use it. In practice, reuse is mostly an organisational chall
"Build once, reuse everywhere" is an attractive idea. It promises efficiency, consistency, and scale, everything platform teams are under pressure to deliver. In practice, it rarely works as intended.
Most API maturity models are too detailed to be useful. They look good in presentations, but they're hard to apply in real organisations where APIs evolve unevenly and constraints are real. The model