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The one-line test

Majors’ sharpest cut: if your “platform” team is still on the hook for another team’s SLOs, you have an ops/SRE team with a new name.

Pull

Production is where code meets reality.

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What Benchlog takes

Platform work earns the label when it creates self-serve abstractions and shrinks the software other teams must operate — including ruthless vendor engineering.

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Transcript note

Chapters derived from the PlatformCon 2023 transcript. Pair with Majors’ later Observability 2.0 talks for the telemetry half of the same sociotechnical shift.