The Blind Spots of Platform Engineering • Matt McLarty & Erik Wilde

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Matt McLarty - CTO at Boomi & Co-Author of "Unbundling the Enterprise"
Erik Wilde - Principal Consultant at INNOQ
RESOURCES
Matt
https://bsky.app/profile/mattmclartybc.bsky.social
https://x.com/MattMcLartyBC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmclartybc

Erik
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikwilde
https://github.com/dret

Links
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6417
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/richard-seroter-on-shifting-down-vs-shifting-left
https://platformengineering.org/blog
DESCRIPTION
Matt McLarty and Erik Wilde explore the nuanced world of platform engineering, challenging conventional approaches and highlighting the critical importance of aligning technological capabilities with business outcomes. They discuss the evolution from DevOps, the role of APIs, and the need to create flexible, reusable technological building blocks that drive true organizational innovation.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise
Carliss Y. Baldwin • Design Rules, Vol. 2
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project

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Kapitel

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Blind spots of platform engineering (00:01:21)

3. Building for optionality (00:15:54)

4. Focusing on business outcomes over tech hype (00:25:19)

5. Outro (00:36:50)