Do you really need a platform team?

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Argues platform engineering is one scalable path to DevOps outcomes not a replacement for DevOps or SRE, and that an internal developer platform (think managed Kubernetes plus infra and deployment automation) only pays off once “platform investment + integration < devops effort,” so one or two teams usually don’t justify it. Recommends growing a platform from existing repeatable work, treating it as a product with stakeholder engagement, and staffing it with engineers who are devops-first but software-oriented.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:24Platform Engineering
3. 1:25Agile Analogy
4. 1:54DevOps maturity models
5. 2:51SAS architectures
6. 3:42PlatformEngineering
7. 4:55Platform vs Traditional
8. 6:20When
9. 8:15What have we learned
10. 9:33Dont start from scratch
11. 10:04Platform Engineer

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