The successor, the platform team, is also really only accessible to enterprise companies. Hiring an entire team to build great dev-tooling and deployments, mon

The successor, the platform team, is also really only accessible to enterprise companies. Hiring an entire team to build great dev-tooling and deployments, monitoring, application templates, org level dependency management etc is just too much to swallow for any medium sized or smaller business, so in that reality you wind up with a few heavily overworked devops folks who take up unhealthy habits to cope with the associated stress and risk. In my 10 year career thus far none of the startups I worked for, even well capitalized ones had what this article, and myself, would consider to be a platform team. I only saw my first platform team when I stepped into a role at 6000+ person company. It's effectively an underserved (and under-appreciated imo) area and responsible for a lot of pain and land-mine decisions companies make around their software product.