Why Most Internal Developer Platforms Fail (And What To Do About It)

I've spent twenty years building and scaling platforms across financial services technology. In that time I've seen internal developer platforms succeed and I've seen them fail. The technical differences between the successes and the failures are smaller than you'd expect. The organisational differences are enormous. The adoption problem nobody talks about Most IDP failures share a common characteristic: the platform team treated adoption as inevitable rather than earned. The assumption goes lik