Platform engineering is about systems of systems - starting from the very purpose and the "why" for its existence, to the people that build it, operate it, use it, and the ecosystem that consumes, enhances and leverages it.
A successful platform makes users highly autonomous; being intentional about what it offers, in order to bring velocity and efficiency to your users, making it easy to do what is right and hard what is wrong.
We started building cloud observability with the aim that 100% of our cloud costs would be owned by our users, and 100% of our users would see every single penny they were spending on. Our thesis was that building the platform and providing this observability would automatically help make Stripe efficient and bend the curve of spend.
A successful platform bakes in trust and accountability for safe, sustainable and healthy evolution of itself, and the ecosystem that builds on top of it.
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