Sources

A set of references that can be used for additional insight into this space.

"The Platform Knows Best" Smell

Platform Engineering 101: Takeaways from Building Internal Tools at HubSpot

What is platform engineering?

Overview of the space by Luca Galante of Humanitec.

The big mistake with Platform Product Owners and what to do about it - Allan Kellyallankellynet

Allan Kelly argues for the importance of the customer focused product owner role, and why common alternatives are not adequate.

Advocating for a Product Mindset within Platform Teams and How We Do it at HelloTech (Part 1)Medium

Samantha Coffman describes how HelloTech’s platform teams use a product mindset to improve their developer experience.

What Problems Indicate the Need of Internal Platform Product Management?

What is Platform as a Product? Clues from Team Topologies — Team TopologiesTeam Topologies

Platform as a Product: True DevOps?The New Stack

Good overview of Platform Engineering by Luca, product manager at Humanitec.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Platformsmartinfowler.com

Why an effective digital platform can help you scale delivery, what it should have in it, and how to get started building one by Evan Bottcher.

Tom Geraghty - DevOps, Leadership and Psychological Safety

Plenty of insightful posts on platform engineering.

What Does a Platform Product Manager Do? | Product HQProduct HQ

Overview of the roles and responsibilities of a platform product manager.

DevOps Loop | June 22, 2022

In this talk, Matthew Skelton uses ideas and patterns from Team Topologies to show how organisations building and running software-enabled products and services can benefit from adopting a “platform as a product” approach.