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

In previous lives we vacillated back and forth here for an app that had 1B+ clients (desktop + mobile). The best I can say is that mobile is very specific and we got better alignment early on by having it vertically integrated. Later we standardized some things - esp as AWS launched OS X systems etc.

What we found was that mobile was less mature in their operational ecosystems and had vastly different requirements so vertically integrated made more sense. No silver bullet and a place to not be dogmatic

This has changed over time so if you’re a mobile only shop probably having a mobile platform makes sense :slightly_smiling_face: