Series
The Hidden Costs of Platform Engineering
- 01. Platform Engineering is Archaeology with Deadlines I 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.
- 02. Your Stakeholders Have Stakeholders (And They All Want Different Things) I 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.