platform-infrastructure
Design and scale internal platforms by abstracting common capabilities and planning infrastructure before hitting limits.
- Focuses on understanding platform purpose, assessing organizational readiness, identifying leverage points, and designing for actual developer adoption rather than theoretical needs
- Emphasizes invisible infrastructure qualities like reliability, performance, and privacy as critical success factors alongside visible features
- Recommends proactive infrastructure scaling planning to avoid bottlenecks during usage spikes, while still avoiding premature optimization
- Flags common mistakes: building for abstract futures, lacking product ownership, client-side tracking over server-side, and underestimating migration costs
Platform Infrastructure
Help the user design and scale internal platforms and shared technical infrastructure using insights from 5 product and engineering leaders.
How to Help
When the user asks for help with platform infrastructure:
- Understand the platform's purpose - Ask whether they're building for internal developers, external partners, or both
- Assess organizational readiness - Determine if they have the adoption and governance structures to support a platform
- Identify the leverage points - Help them find where platform investment creates the most value multiplication
- Design for adoption - Ensure the platform solves real developer problems, not theoretical ones
Core Principles
Abstract common capabilities into shared infrastructure
Daniel Lereya: "We actually stopped for the first time and say, 'What is the column like?' And we also organized all the product architecture around it... making the work of adding a new column just thinking about the specific." Scaling feature velocity requires abstracting repetitive components into a shared infrastructure so developers only focus on unique logic.
Invisible infrastructure often matters most
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