How are you measuring platform engineering success?
DORA metrics, developer surveys, time-to-first-deploy, cost per service? What convinced leadership the platform team is worth it?
This is where people who run enterprise technology compare notes before a decision: what they’re evaluating, what they’d pick again and what went wrong. Most members are practitioners. Anyone who works for a vendor carries their company’s name on every post.
The bar is specifics over opinions: what you ran, at what scale and what you learned. Moderators check each new member’s first posts.
DORA metrics, developer surveys, time-to-first-deploy, cost per service? What convinced leadership the platform team is worth it?
More PRs, bigger PRs, new review checklists? Share what changed in your process and quality metrics.
If you have run more than one, compare them on cost at your scale, time to value and on-call experience.
Inventories, risk tiers, approval workflows, monitoring. What framework did you adopt and what does day-to-day governance look like?
Fleet management, updates, security patching and observability at the edge: what tools and practices have held up?
Sampling, tiered retention, OpenTelemetry pipelines, switching vendors? What cut the bill the most?