Kelsey has a really good lightbulb moment here about platform engineering.
"if you had to do all the deployments for the entire company what questions would you ask of the development team?"
That's your api, your platform, this is your product as a platform engineer. It's not images, docker, terraform, hcl, yaml, kubernetes, It's building out the right api for your company to deploy its products effectively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUbTyvrfKo&t=429s
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