>platform engineering and enabling developer self-service. in any sufficiently large company platforms arent engineered, they are acquired or purchased/license

>platform engineering and enabling developer self-service. in any sufficiently large company platforms arent engineered, they are acquired or purchased/licensed based on their viability as an "enterprise grade" asset that drives business success and reduces cost through identifiable if not meaningless KPI and record keeping. In any sufficiently large company self-service is supplanted by rigid controls, authorizations, approvals, and annual reviews. this is done in the service of jira and the need to make-pretend work by an ever growing cavalcade of pseudoworkers who recognize self-service as the killing stroke of their career. it can then be said, grudgingly and with scorn, that devops seems designed by its very definition to operate as an antipattern to some of the worlds largest, most successful corporations.