Platform & DevOps·Running it: capacity, failure and recovery
a team's output is not a feature but the thing forty other engineers use to ship features safely.
Platform engineering
Also calledplatform team, infrastructure platform
Treating internal infrastructure capability as a product built by a dedicated team for other engineers. It exists because the alternatives both fail at scale: every team solving deployment, secrets and observability separately, or a gatekeeping operations team that becomes a queue. Its characteristic failure is building a platform nobody adopts, which is why adoption rather than completeness is the metric that matters.