2 years ago

This is part of a series of contributed articles leading up to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in October. To keep up with these demands, many organizations try to adopt DevOps, but adopting DevOps practices is easier said than done.

If these parameters are right, for a thousand-person engineering organization, we should devote over a quarter of our engineers — 255 — to engineering effectiveness, which is a big part of platform engineering.

Concentrating specialized skills in platform teams means recruitment efforts for development teams can focus on developers, testers, etc., without requiring more costly, specialized cloud or platform skills.

In the same way platform teams prevent developer teams from reinventing the wheel through the paved path, platform teams should avoid falling into the same fallacy.