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0 pointsswitch0073y ago0 comments

> Sounds a bit like those places aren’t at the scale where a platform team makes sense.

But so many orgs want to believe they are Google scale and you’re stuck with premature teams such as Platform Engineering. Then it just explodes and suddenly you have a director of platform Engineering and multiple sub teams and suddenly OKRs, ADRs, RFCs, team charters and perpetual Kubernetes upgrades and nobody can question its existence any more

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blowski3y ago· 2 in thread

SOC2 is behind a lot of that. Companies need to be compliant to sell into enterprises. They don’t want to go through the compliance process for each individual team, so they try to standardise. Lots of locally optimised teams don’t necessarily make an effective and efficient system.

re-thc3y ago

> SOC2 is behind a lot of that.

Which might actually be a good thing in disguise.

Lots of companies do random things that just look good from the outside. I've been to places where code review wasn't a thing until SOC2 forced their hand and even then it wasn't well enforced.

blowski3y ago

Yes, I agree. SOC2 is the closest we have to a “professional standard” in engineering right now, and it’s forcing a lot of changes.

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