The body of work behind the practice

"Trying to treat probabilistic capabilities as deterministic leads to brittle expectations. Treating deterministic capabilities as if variability were acceptable leads to operational chaos."

Kaspar von Grunberg and Luca Galante, Thinking in Platforms

"Enterprises that succeed with AI-augmented platforms start with the business problem, not the model. Too many teams begin by asking 'What can we build with AI?' rather than 'What operational bottleneck can AI solve?'"

Ajay Chankramath, The Platform Engineer's Handbook

Domain-driven platform engineering is the future

Why platform boundaries should follow business domains, not infrastructure layers. This conversation covers the shift from monolithic internal platforms to domain-aligned platform products, and what it means for teams trying to scale beyond a single platform team.

Explore the architecture side of this in the Certified Architect program, which covers scalable IDP design and policy-as-code across domains.

Platform therapy: coaching teams through change

Mallory Haigh's PlatformCon talk on why platform adoption is a people problem before it's a technical one. Most teams don't fail because the platform isn't ready. They fail because the organization isn't. This session walks through what "platform therapy" looks like when you're sitting across the table from a team that's stuck.

Struggling with adoption and organizational alignment? The PE University Leader certification covers stakeholder alignment, governance, and the metrics that make platform value visible to leadership.