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

It’s an old news tbh, and it’s quite regular with Google shutting down under-performing services.

Relevant links:
<https://killedbygoogle.com/>

_Edit: Just realised it is your own blog post v/s news share._

_You may like the discussion here, which I personally feel is the root cause i.e. promotions are driven by new products and not by maintaining/improving older services._
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553294>