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Platform teams
• 🌱 Seedling • 1 min read
The purpose of a platform team is to enable stream-aligned teams to deliver work with substantial autonomy. The stream-aligned team maintains full ownership of building, running, and fixing their application in production. The platform team provides internal services to reduce the cognitive load that would be required from stream-aligned teams to develop these underlying services. 1
A platform team...putting it crudely...builds the stuff that lets others build and run their stuff. 2