A foundation of digital building blocks, tools, and standards that others can build on top of to create new products, services, and business models.
Platform
2 of our books and 1 talk define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
teams that provide internal services with the goal of reducing cognitive load on stream-aligned teams
— Team Topologies Reader's Guide, in the text
you build and maintain a thing, others build and maintain a thing on top of your thing
— Charity Majors · Honeycomb: All the World's a Platform, Las Vegas 2018 · at 3:10
See also golden path platform · Government as a Platform · outer platform · platform engineering · platform grouping · platform team
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