It's incredibly difficult to fund internal platform teams appropriately. Usually one of three failure patterns emerges 1) The team is competent but picks up m

It's incredibly difficult to fund internal platform teams appropriately. Usually one of three failure patterns emerges 1) The team is competent but picks up migration work to arbitrary technologies, and approaches with no clear ROI. These migrations block feature development and never seem to end e.g. teams ceaselessly migrating from GCP to AWS, to kubernetes, to podman from mysql to postgresql etc. 2) The team is operationally heavy and generates arbitrary requirements for everyone else to follow. The toolchain seems to get worse over time, and the number of hoops to jump through to get anything done endlessly grows e.g. Wait 2 weeks and get three business approvals for a server which you aren't allowed to have root access to. 3) The team has big ideas, but the business constantly under invests. The team is called to fight every fire but unable to stop the fires through any meaningful project. The company ends up on a platform thats constantly on fire. When weighing these execution risks building an internal platform for just about anything looks incredibly expensive. I've only been at 1 company out of 6 which nailed the internal platform tooling requirements. The only reason I can attribute to their success was through quarterly NPS surveys on the developer experience for every major piece of the companies toolchain + hard to meet SLAs for uptime.