Lightning Talk: 5 Pitfalls of Building Developer Platforms - Jessica Andersson, Jesande
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DORA names internal platforms as a core capability and the talk lists five concrete failure modes: staffing with ops people who keep doing work instead of building abstractions, becoming the company sink that fixes every ad‑hoc request, overengineering a golden path instead of targeting 80% use case, shipping without customer discovery and breaking developer trust, and endless costly migrations. Advice: build a thinnest viable platform, standardize boring things, and invest effort to make migrations fast and low friction.
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