Building a platform engineering team that’s set up for success
Summary
But in order to realize the benefits, it’s important to set the platform engineering team up for success by ensuring that they have the necessary skills, structure, and working processes in place. “You want to provide developers with paved roads and really intuitive ways of interacting with your increasingly complex tool chain … But at the end of the day, they’re still engineers. Cook added that DevOps has likely felt the pain of what it takes to release and maintain software, so they can bring what they’ve learned to the table. And finally, SREs translate well into platform engineers because they’re responsible for quality, making sure that the MTTR is low, and improving the overall resiliency of an organization. He said that developers were a bit hesitant to speak up at first, but once one person started the discussion, that broke the ice for the rest of the team to be open with what’s wrong.