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This exactly is what Platform Engineering teams do.

Every business is unique and there isn't a universal generalisable useful solution here which is also simple. Hence why Platform teams exist.

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I hear you. I’ve been lucky to work on dev experience in a platform team so I do agree that this is a platform teams job. I wonder though as our stacks mature and things normalize, if there’s a chance to do some thinking and organize systems from first principles to create a platform that suits the vast majority of app development. If a team outgrows it, maybe that’s a call for a platform team.

I’m trying to imagine though what a platform team might look like in a world like that. A lot of dev ops teams today work around cloud configs and terraform for example instead of bash scripts and hardware. Maybe platform teams of the future think of plugins and modules for these imagined systems instead of building on top of a lot of low level stuff.

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