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Platforms Are Abstractions

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1/7/2024

Platforms are abstractions1. Effective platform teams offer other teams the right abstraction, and this shouldn’t be a single standardized abstraction.

The goal should be to offer a range of abstractions without overloading the choices. Talk to the workload teams, understand their preferences, and offer them the right abstraction.

Run your platform team as a company. If your customers are not buying, you’re not doing the right job.

Platform engineering is about providing the right abstractions.


👟 Footnotes

  1. https://2023.platformcon.com/talks/build-abstractions-not-illusions ↩︎

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