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The platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us
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The platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us

When we started doing platform work more than ten years ago, nobody called it "platform engineering." We were just trying to make it easier for people …

Apr 6, 2026 4 min read
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The CRA's unexpected effect on open source

There's a conversation happening quietly in legal and engineering teams across Europe right now. It's not about whether to comply with the EU Cyber Re …

Mar 17, 2026 4 min read

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The platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us

The hidden cost of platform engineering isn't building your stack — it's keeping it alive. Giant Swarm surveyed 143 platform teams to find out.

Oliver Thylmann
• Apr 6, 2026

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