It takes really good engineering leadership to build a platform team. With the wherewithal to follow through on migrations and marketing of the platform. Also,

It takes really good engineering leadership to build a platform team. With the wherewithal to follow through on migrations and marketing of the platform. Also, sourcing the right people internally and elevating them. These engineers become true full stack (the whole OSI model) engineers and their work most definitely shouldn’t be thankless or taken for granted by product leaders. I’ve seen efforts like this fall apart in very ugly ways due to a lack of leadership.