A technical memoir about platform work
The Platform Problem
Why Good Teams Build Systems That Don’t Fit Together
Eight years inside the teams that built shared systems for warehouse operations, and why decisions that made sense for each team did not add up to one system. Real stories, with exercises for your own team.
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What the book gives you
Real stories
Told in the order they happened, with the decisions, the mistakes and what each one cost.
Who it is for →The mechanism behind them
Why good teams with good tools build systems that do not fit together, and who pays for it.
What you will learn →Exercises for your team
47 questions and exercises at the end of each part, to find the same patterns in your own context.
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Written by Walker de Paula, a software engineer and technical leader who spent eight years building shared frontend systems for warehouse and logistics operations. About the author