Nano's The Hidden Costs of Platform Engineering
1. Platform Engineering is Archaeology with Deadlines
• 8 min readI joined a company in 2019 to build a bank. COVID killed that project. I got moved to a food delivery app with 1.3 million lines of code, 750k still in Objective-C, and a Swift migration that had stalled for two years.
2. Your Stakeholders Have Stakeholders (And They All Want Different Things)
• 8 min readI had a plan to fix the Swift migration. I had executive buy-in. Engineers agreed it was a good idea. But this was COVID. Food delivery was exploding. And feature velocity was the only metric that mattered.