When Platform Engineering Devolves Into ANARCHY

When your platform capabilities offer autonomy without alignment, your teams can quickly make technology decisions, but without guidance. In the short term, this allows teams to use familiar tech stacks to rapidly build services and deliver them to customers. However, in the long term, it creates a fragmented ecosystem full of inefficiencies, staffing challenges, and a maintenance mountain. Platform Engineering teams need alignment and autonomy in product and technology to succeed at scale. Alignment connects vision, strategy, and execution, while autonomy empowers teams to act independently. Increasing alignment means better decisions, and increasing autonomy means faster decisions. - Steve on X ➡️ https://x.com/SteveSmith_Tech Steve on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesmithtech/ Steve on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/stevesmithtech.bsky.social Modern Software Engineering on X ➡️ https://x.com/ModernSoftwareX Modern Software Engineering on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-software-engineering Modern Software Engineering on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/modernswe.bsky.social - ⭐ PATREON: Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon 🎥 Join Us On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@modern.s.engineering - CHANNEL SPONSORS: Tuple is a remote ensemble and pair programming app for macOS and Windows, designed to make you feel like you're collaborating in person. It’s got loads of developer-specific touches you just don’t see with generic screen-sharing tools. Check out Tuple HERE ➡️ https://tuple.app/cd Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com - 🔗 LINKS: Steve's Blog ➡️ www.stevesmith.tech/blog Steve's Books ➡️ https://leanpub.com/u/stevesmith - #platformengineering #softwareengineering #programming #softwaredevelopment #coding