How to build a platform team now! the secrets to successful engineering
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Platform level problems
TLDR; Scaling teams are hard. A platform team done right can help ease the hardships.
At Conde Nast International we grew from a team of 20 engineers to less than 100 in less than a year. We found out that building out a system that will be used in many markets has a lot of moving parts and repetition. For example rebuilding the infrastructure and application configuration. Adding third party add-on software. Building the application using CDN redirects. DNS registration and configuration.
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Platform Authority
The authority of the platform team lies not in the enforcement of standards. But in the subtle steering of the development team into one decision or the other.
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Platform Accountability
Accountability as a team is important to make sure that whenever the team is making a breaking change the rest of the teams are informed.
Blameless post mortem is a requirement to make each of the member feel safe to make changes. Building a better system at the same time taking ownership of the system.
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Platform Member Skills
- vendor management
- pipeline management
- git and scm
- observability (logging monitoring tracing)
- soft skill and people management
- collaboration with other teams and negotiation with the management
- common workflow and architecture management
- security
- developer training and teaching
- documentation development
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Platform Leadership
Having a semi flat structure with multiple senior and principal engineer that could make agile decision is recommended. Also having a big team like this with many moving parts would mean that a technical lead role is unsuitable rather having a engineering manager for platform and solution architect is essential.
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