Daniel Bryant's talk at GOTO Copenhagen argues that platform engineering should treat developers as customers and focus on composable 'golden bricks' rather than rigid golden paths. Platforms should be internal products with self-service APIs that reduce cognitive load and enable fast flow. Success metrics span adoption, developer experience (SPACE/DX Core 4), and business outcomes like deployment frequency and change failure rate (DORA). Bryant also warns against leaky abstractions and advocates for clear layered architecture separating infrastructure, platform, and application concerns.
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