Why platform engineering fails to scale: Product and adoption design in practice

Source: Red Hat Blog

Platform engineering can improve developer experience, provide reusable platform services across an organization, and help teams deliver software more quickly without compromising trust and security. In practice, however, many platform teams struggle to achieve the level of adoption they expect. Some teams find themselves pulled into project-specific support work. Others build tools and standards that are technically sound, but rarely used, and as a result, the platform does not deliver the reusability or scale it was intended to provide.As a Red Hat consultant, I have worked on platform engin