--- title: Inside Platform Engineering with Joep Piscaer | daily.dev description: 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.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-platform-engineering-with-joep-piscaer-st9bkbpfx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Inside Platform Engineering with Joep Piscaer | daily.dev og:description: 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.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-platform-engineering-with-joep-piscaer-st9bkbpfx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/st9bKBPfx.png og:image:alt: Inside Platform Engineering with Joep Piscaer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Inside Platform Engineering with Joep Piscaer **[OctopusDeploy](https://daily.dev/sources/octopusdeploy)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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