Platform Engineering for Startups Building Internal Developer Platforms That Let Small Teams Ship Like Large Ones-Without the Enterprise Bloat

What if the platform you’re racing to build is the very mechanism that will slow your startup down when speed matters most?

Platform engineering has become a cargo cult. Startups implement internal developer platforms, golden paths, and “enterprise-grade” tooling before they’ve outgrown their sneakers-only to find themselves bogged down by the coordination costs they sought to eliminate. This book argues that platforms are not growth accelerators but stabilizers: gove…