How to Be a Successful Platform Engineer

Most of our listeners are DevOps engineers, so that puts them in that stakeholder bucket. As a platform engineer, it needs to be extremely clear that developers are your customers and the users of your product, i.e. the platform. All the product management best practices of the last like, I don't know, 30, 40 years plus apply, right? So what we said earlier, user research product, road mapping, MVP adoption, rollout, and so on, all those things apply to building a platform.