If You Have A Platform Engineering Project, You'Re Doing It Wrong
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
It's September 2025, and the writing's on the wall for anyone still running platform engineering as a series of bespoke, hand-rolled projects. The 'build it yourself' ethos that shaped the early days of internal developer platforms (IDPs) now feels almost quaint. Why? Because the market - and the demands on tech teams - has moved on at lightning speed.
We're well past the inflection point: If you're treating your platform as an internal project and not a strategic product, you're setting yourself up to lose. The do-it-yourself drive may have been noble, but it's simply not scalable - or sustainable - in today's world.