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Platform Engineering Is An Evolution Not A Reboot
- Platform engineering is a culmination of DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure-as-code practices rather than a wholly new discipline.
- Rob frames it as a reaction to excessive team autonomy where shared reusable automation and fidelity across environments become necessary.
Run Internal Platforms Like Real Products
- Treat internal platforms as products by assigning product management responsibilities like release cycles, feature work, and maintenance.
- Rob points to early Terraform users who built web UIs and then had to maintain those internal products long term.
Terraform Users Learned They Were Building Products
- Early Terraform adopters built custom web interfaces and discovered they were maintaining internal products with release and feature demands.
- Rob uses that history to illustrate why teams today need product management for internally built platforms.