Comments by "" (@adambickford8720) on "Platform Engineering Is The New Kid On The Block" video.

  1. That's the hype. In practice, there really isn't a ton of accidental complexity and these snowflake abstractions are hinderances.
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  2. I worked at a fortune 100 company with a forced 'platform' and it was terrible. Forced upgrades that could just blow up an entire sprint with breaking changes, yet you can't get things like a modern version of java on the platform. Some terrible leaky yaml mess over the real cloud apis, only you can't google anything and slower, undocumented bug fixes. A new cloud service that solves your problem? Not for at least a year for the 'platform team' to add another bad abstraction over the latest cloud services, assuming they think you need it and they feel like supporting it. All while touting innovation and autonomy.
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  3.  @BryonLape  And having to sift through all the resumes where they think sticking a json blob in mongo during the todo tutorial is 'full stack'. I see guys 2 years out of school applying for 'senior dev' positions. Yeah, no.
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  4.    No, it's my opinion based on my direct experience with such systems. Correcting me on your misunderstanding of the problem sounds exactly like what a platform engineer would say though ;)
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