Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

my mission statement:
“reduce cognitive load, optimize for slack”

• <https://itrevolution.com/team-cognitive-load-team-topologies/>
• <https://www.infoq.com/articles/reduce-cognitive-load-devops-teams/>
• <https://www.ideasforleaders.com/ideas/why-slack-time-is-important-for-innovation-it%E2%80%99s-not-what-you-think>

This was the mission statement for the platform team in my previous org

&gt; •  _Providing Internal Developer Platform (IDP) consisting of tools and infrastructure to enable developers to build, test, deploy and operate backend services in a secure, reliable, and scalable manner._
&gt; • _Provide state-of-the-art developer experience where teams can take full end-to-end service ownership without any additional overheads._


<https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20220121-introducing-platform-infra-team-at-mercari/>