7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform

Building your own internal developer platform can seem attractive, but it's a risky proposition. In a platform as a product approach, when you build it, you own it, and now you're in the business of developing a product instead of your actual business. In this talk, drawing from 10 years of platform engineering case studies of large organizations, I'll go over seven risks of building your own platform: expansive scopes, underestimating cost, project instead of product mindsets, and death by customization. Plus the softer traps: missing skills, security and compliance debt, and resume-driven development. Platforms have always been important, and with new AI apps and uses, they'll be in even more demand. You can learn from the many people who've suffered these risks already and, hopefully, avoid them yourself.