Achieving Compliance as a Platform Engineering Team by Helping Developers

Ben Linders — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:42:00 GMT

When a new platform team set out to implement their roadmap through forced workflows with poor documentation, developer experience declined. Success came from simplifying governance, prioritizing what mattered, and rolling out compliance incrementally through prevention, detection, and communication. Empathy, focus, and shared purpose drove successful adoption.

By Ben Linders

Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want

Ben Linders — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:09:00 GMT

A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics like DORA, create narratives, and show the hidden pain to make it personal: these are lessons that Lucas Hornung and Christian Matthaei presented.

By Ben Linders

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Achieving Compliance as a Platform Engineering Team by Helping Developers

Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want