Lambda Lambda is a developer acceleration company based in San Francisco. It's built on the back of ThoughtWorks, an open-source software development firm. Lambda has been working with companies to create serverless interfaces for their SaaS products. He says that while there are some struggles around extracting all sorts of useful insights from developers, he thinks they're starting to get better at it.
Brian Guthrie, co-founder and CTO at Orgspace and former VP of Engineering at Meetup, has the unique experience of having previously decommissioned his Platform team. In this episode, Brian talks about that story openly, and shares advice for Platform teams to make sure they’re well positioned within their organizations.
Discussion points:
- Brian’s background and story at Meetup - [00:02:20]
- Brian’s perspective on Platform work, generally - [00:06:40]
- The conversation around dissolving the Platform group - [00:12:05]
- Advice for Platform groups positioning their teams - [00:16:55]
- Making sure Platform groups are focused on the right problems [00:21:21]
- How Platform groups can think about communicating with the business [00:23:50]
- Bringing engineering teams into the planning process - [00:25:43]
- Deciding to build vs buy in a down market - [00:28:40]
- How developer happiness is part of positioning platform work [00:32:30]
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