Turns out the world of tech is just like fashion: I was working on a platform engineering team in 2006!<p>It really is just slapping a fancy label on the very obvious concept of working out what the common problems are that your software engineers are having to solve that <i>aren’t</i> about the unique value of the system they’re building, and then solving them once, for everybody, in a coherent and managed way.<p>Pretty obvious and non controversial in my opinion, no SRE’s or devops engineers need to be sacrificed in its name.