platform-infrastructure

Design and scale internal platforms by abstracting common capabilities and planning infrastructure before hitting limits. Help the user design and scale internal platforms and shared technical infrastructure using insights from 5 product and engineering leaders. When the user asks for help with platform infrastructure: Daniel Lereya: "We actually stopped for the first time and say, 'What is the column like?' And we also organized all the product architecture around it... making the work of adding a new column just thinking about the specific." Scaling feature velocity requires abstracting repetitive components into a shared infrastructure so developers only focus on unique logic. Asha Sharma: "It wasn't the hundreds of features, it was all in the infrastructure and the platform... performance, reliability, privacy, safety, all of those things." The success of major platforms often depends on "invisible" qualities like reliability and speed rather than visible features. Ivan Zhao: "During COVID, we just couldn't scale up our infrastructure. For the longest time, Simon's really good at don't do premature optimization... we're running off even the largest instance there is for Postgres." While avoiding premature optimization is good, infrastructure must be planned far enough ahead to avoid "doomsday" scenarios when usage spikes. Eli Schwartz: "If you create a categorized sitemap...