Platform coffee coming up in 15 minutes! We're talking about organizing platform teams again this week. Get invites at https://platform.cafe/group
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David Stenglein
08/21/2025, 1:21 AM
Here's our board from last week:
# Platform Coffee - 2025-08-13
- Participants: 33
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- [Link to board](https://scrumlr.io/board/f5129a76-d335-4057-adb1-91822f155eee)
## Topics (4 Notes)
- How do you distribute work as a platform team.
- If platform teams scale non-linearly... how sub-linear should we attempt?
- Who's your customer, really?
- How does an an Agentic platform map to an organization to provide visibility on what AI agents are in use and what work is going on?
## Done (9 Notes)
- Platform Engineering vs DevOps vs SRE
- What’s your approach for training and supporting others in your model?
- Platform Team Career Paths
- AI/ML Platforms - separate or core?
- is there a minimum number of devs in an org required to attempt building an idp?
- Hear me out... Vibe Platforms?
- What’s your approach to scaling a Platform as a Product initiative.
- Driving organizational alignment when managing up
- How do you handle support for your platform/tools?
## Links/Info (4 Notes)
- CNCF Cloud native Platform Engineering
https://github.com/Cloud-Native-Platform-Engineering/cnpe-community/issues/34
- LET A 1,000 FLOWERS BLOOM. THEN RIP 999 OF THEM OUT BY THE ROOTS
https://gigamonkeys.com/flowers/
- Job ladders
https://dresscode.renttherunway.com/blog/ladderhttps://progression.fyi/
- https://web.devopstopologies.com/