Joep Piscaer, Field CTO at Portainer, shares his perspective on platform engineering with a core message: the best platform decision is often to add nothing. He compares the CNCF landscape to a candy shop where reflexive tool adoption leads to long-term operational debt. Key points include keeping platform teams small (under 8 people) to stay lean and user-focused, spending more time understanding user needs than writing code, and how AI-assisted coding is changing who platforms need to serve — business users now build their own tools and just want a URL, not Kubernetes complexity.
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Watch the episodeThe candy shop problemSmall teams will build lean platformsTalk to your users before you buildVibe coding is changing who the platform needs to supportTags:5.6K Impressions