1 year ago

I’ve been working in software engineering and DevOps for about a decade. For the last five years, I’ve worked on platform teams and with other infrastructure-focused teams that are trying to become platform teams, even if they didn’t realize it at the time.

Platform teams focus on building and maintaining core systems and workflows for delivering infrastructure and other services to application teams.

In the same way that product teams have to gather feedback from their customers and listen to key stakeholders, platform teams need to collaborate with application teams while also meeting requirements from security, compliance, finance, etc.

Platform teams are an essential part of that transition, blending the worlds of infrastructure and software engineering.