We wrote the book on platform engineering

• Luca Galante’s new book ‘Thinking in Platforms’ compiles 10 years of platform engineering lessons and stress-tested principles
• Introduces four archetypes of production systems: artisanal, hero-based, bureaucratic, and platform-based; explains why platform-based is optimal
• Presents the ‘paths to outcome’ framework where platforms are designed as deliberate routes users take repeatedly, standardizing means but not outputs
• A typical platform has ~20-25 manageable paths (e.g., ‘get a small Postgres database’), not hundreds; each path includes input interface, capability, and output
• Platform engineering principles apply across all domains (marketing, legal, finance, IT); with AI agents now becoming users, platforms must provide clearer paths for agentic systems

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