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Episode: How developer platforms fail (and how yours wonβt) with Russ Miles
Description: Russ Miles joins the show to unpack why developer platforms fail and how to rethink platform engineering through the lens of flow of value rather than factory-style developer productivity metaphors.
Russ explains why every organization already has an internal developer platform, and why treating it as platform as a product changes everything. The conversation explores cognitive load and cognitive burden, how to design around strong feedback loops, and why the OODA loop mindset helps teams make better decisions closer to development time.
They discuss the risks of overloading pipelines and CI/CD systems, the tension...