Platform

What makes an internal platform succeed rather than become another queue?

Whether the candidate treats the platform as a product with users, and can distinguish a guardrail from a gate.

The situation behind the question

A platform team of six has built a deployment system that every service must use. Onboarding a new service takes three weeks and requires two tickets. Two product teams have quietly built their own pipelines, and the platform team wants to know how to enforce compliance.