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Platform Challenge 6: Codifying Your Business
Software teams—and the internal platform they use—do not exist in a vacuum. Quite the opposite. They are often inserted into a bigger...
Derik Evangelista
Dec 30, 20222 min read


Platform Challenge 5: Not All Service Experts Are on the Platform Team
Work across your organisation to build your platform as a product and ensure that your platform offerings leverage collective expertise.
Winna Bridgewater
Dec 29, 20222 min read


Platform Challenge 4: Cognitive Load Has Shifted to Your Team
In the last couple of decades software delivery has gone through significant changes. Historically, software was subdivided into focused...
Abby Bangser
Dec 28, 20223 min read


Platform Challenge 3: You Can’t Buy What Only You Need
Build vs buy is a perennial conversation in the software industry. Buying a ready-made product that promises to deliver multiples of...
Christopher Hedley
Dec 27, 20222 min read


Platform Challenge 2: Time Pressure Makes a Full Platform Rewrite Unlikely
The tech ecosystem is a rapidly changing space. Companies are often grappling with staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and...
Jake Klein
Dec 26, 20223 min read


Platform Challenge 1: A Small Team Supporting a Big Platform
Over the last 6 years I have had the pleasure of working on a few amazing platform teams. In each case we had an outsized impact on the...
Abby Bangser
Dec 25, 20222 min read


The 12 Platform Challenges of Christmas
Platform Engineering is generating quite the buzz these days. In particular, there seems to be a lot of chat about what it is not. Or how...

Paula Kennedy
Dec 8, 20221 min read


Paving Golden Paths on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes: Part 2 (The Practice)
The first article in this series covered the theory behind the emergence of internal platforms, platform teams, and paving golden paths....

Colin Humphreys
Aug 19, 20225 min read


Paving Golden Paths On Multi-Cluster Kubernetes: Part 1 (The Theory)
When I wasted three years of my life building a platform for a project that failed within a month of launching, I vowed to never make the...

Colin Humphreys
Aug 19, 20223 min read


Crossing the Platform Gap
Time Wasted on Commodity Infrastructure The modern digital organisation is populated with customer-focused teams delivering business...

Colin Humphreys
Sep 22, 20212 min read
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