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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.

Commonly confused with