Platform engineering vs DevOps: the decision most growing startups get backwards

Platform engineering is not a replacement for DevOps. It's what happens when DevOps works well enough that it creates a new problem. Here's the sequence most teams miss. DevOps solves the wall between dev and ops. Developers own deployments. Everyone automates. Software ships faster. This works well up to 30-50 engineers. Every team manages their own infrastructure. It's messy but manageable. Then scale kicks in. At 80-100 engineers, "everyone owns their infrastructure" means: 12 teams with 12 d