What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

Evan Bottcher has been involved with several of our clients with
microservices and platform building over the last few years. A couple of
years ago, at one of our radar writing meetings, he gave a great
presentation on what makes an effective way to think about platforms. We
urged him to turn it into an article, but for a long time he was too busy
to write it down. He talks about common un-platform problems, the danger
of backlog coupling, and the balance between autonomy and efficient use of
infrastructure.

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