10 Platform Engineering Anti-Patterns That Are Killing Your Developer Productivity
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The 2024 DORA Report dropped a bombshell that should terrify every platform engineering leader: organizations with dedicated platform teams saw throughput decrease by 8% and change stability decrease by 14%. Meanwhile, Gartner predicts that 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams by 2026.
Something doesn't add up. If platform engineering is supposed to accelerate development, why are so many platform investments actively making things worse?
The answer lies in ten recurring anti-patterns that doom platform initiatives before they ever deliver value.