Archive - Backend Platform

The RSE Framework

Most backend platform teams aren't building the wrong things. They're building in the wrong order. Roadmap, System, Ecosystem: the three-stage model for…

Jun 8 • Vincent Chow

May 2026

Every Mid-Size Engineering Org Has a Hidden Backend Platform Team. It's Called "Senior Engineers Doing Repetitive Work."

You don't decide whether to have a platform team. You decide whether it's intentional.

May 19 • Vincent Chow

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