Another year, another wave in how we build software. We now live in a post-software-eaten world, where software is like the water that fish aren’t even aware exists. And yet, we have struggled to pin down the mysterious aether that makes the best software systems delightful while the rest are clunky, decaying, hulking beasts struggling to stay afloat.

The latest trend is Platform Engineering, the idea that a team in your company should take care of the common shared services that other development teams rely on to build their products and services.