Does it ever feel like all the technologies are just things layered on top of each other? Does it ever feel like platforms are a combination of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell?

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WHEN EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM, FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERING TEAMS

Is everything really now on the shoulders of the Platform Engineering team?
Are all platform engineering teams all combined together?

BE CAREFUL ABOUT CREATING THINGS WITH NO MEANING

“It still stands as the best summary of the state of living we call Now imaginable. No business or brand means anything, no meaning cannot be bundled for the purpose of the sales team, nothing is too special that it can’t be balled up into a late night chaos meal thrown straight into the mouth of drunken capitalism.” - Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall, Channel 6

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