Platform Engineering
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
Lenny's Podcast 
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3 statements about Platform Engineering, every show
Fournier: Platform engineering teams must include dedicated software engineers, not just SREs
“First of all, I really am a very strong believer that like platform engineering has to involve software engineering. If you don't have any software engineers on your platform team, and you only have like, you know, more like operation systems engineers, DevOps…”
Fournier: The best platform tools originate in individual application teams
“A lot of the best platform type offerings and companies start in individual like application teams, like an application team has a problem and they solve it for themselves. And it turns out that that's actually a really good idea for how to solve that problem.…”
Casado: Platform engineering is emerging as a new enterprise buying center
“We're actually seeing the creation of a new buying center in the industry. I've heard it called platform engineering. I've heard it called the DevOps team or whatever. This is like budget allocated. It's actually viewed as a profit center as product aligned, b…”