The "Fruit Basket" problem: Rebuilding PayFit's...

If I have to touch infrastructure, I double my estimate. In early 2025, that was the prevailing sentiment among developers at PayFit. It wasn't that we didn't have tools, we had plenty. We also had a platform team. Actually, we had five of them. And that was exactly the problem. The Organizational Pendulum Between 2019 and 2022, PayFit swung between two extremes: During our hyper growth phases, we’d have a centralized platform team building abstractions in a vacuum. By the time COVID hit, the pe