Engineering platforms and golden paths: Building better developer experiences

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The concept of the developer platform and the discipline of platform engineering have been important in shaping how the industry thinks about enabling developers. But what does it mean to actually build and maintain a platform? How can you ensure it actually supports the people that need it?

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, hosts Ken Mugrage and Rebecca Parsons are joined by Chris Ford of Thoughtworks Spain and Aidan Donnelly, Director of Technology Platform at Personio, to discuss the importance of engineering platforms in organizations today.

Read Aidan's writing on Medium: https://medium.com/@aidan.donnelly

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:10.7	My name is Ken McGrath. I'm one of the co-hosts. I'm joined today by Rebecca.
0:15.4	Hello, everybody. Rebecca Parsons, CTO Emerita of ThoughtWorks and one of the Technology Podcast co-hosts.
0:21.7	And joined today by a guest, Aidan.
0:24.5	Hi, everyone.
0:25.5	I'm Aidan Donnelly, a director of technology platform at Personio.
0:29.2	Thank you for having me today.
0:31.2	Thanks for joining us.
0:32.1	And Chris.
0:33.0	Hi, I'm Chris.
0:33.8	I'm the head of technology for ThoughtWorks, Spain.
0:36.9	Okay, so we're here today to talk about platforms, and it's a very large topic, something
0:42.9	we've talked about quite a bit.
0:44.5	So I guess I'm going to start, Aden, with you just for the purpose of today's discussion,
0:48.6	what do we mean by platforms?
0:49.9	What is a platform?
0:51.0	What are we talking about today?
0:52.8	Yeah, there's a number of different ways you can describe a platform team.
0:57.1	Most generally, it's an investment by a company and a group of people who are going to deliver
1:01.5	something that will help other teams to do their job.
1:04.4	So it's an investment because you can do without a platform team and some companies do.
1:09.3	But with the platform team, the company believes it's going to be more beneficial to
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