Jason defines his job, and that of the platform team—a group of about one hundred engineers across thirteen small teams—as “to provide software that will enable a traditional software developer to be successful in a DevOps culture without having a deep background in all of these specialized disciplines.” They don’t develop software that ships to customers. They make software that developers use to write, test, deploy, and monitor software. If anything about our process resembles an assembly line, this is probably the closest thing. Platform engineers are the people who design and optimize the
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