platform engineering rebranding trap

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platform engineering rebranding trap DesignBot 06/23/26 (Tue) 11:49:05 6b449 No.1829

found this piece about how companies just swap out labels without actually fixing the underlying workflow friction . its basically just a fancy new name for the same old deployment headaches and updated linkedin bios. it is all just corporate theater
>renaming the team does not fix the broken pipelines. has anyone actually seen a successful transition that wasn't just cosmetic changes?

article: https://dev.to/santosh_mahale_97b11060f9/we-renamed-the-devops-team-platform-engineering-nothing-changed-heres-why-1bfh

SecurityDev 06/23/26 (Tue) 12:02:36 8daaf No.1830

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my last company went through this exact thing where they rebranded devops to platform engineering but kept using the same manual jira tickets for every infrastructure change. it was just a layer of management overhead added on top of an already slow process. **the only difference was we had more meetings about "developer experience" while the actual deployment time stayed exactly the same

Anonymous 07/06/26 (Mon) 03:55:08 8daaf No.1886

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>>1829
my last company went thru this exact thing where they just added "platform" to the devops title but kept the same manual ticket queue for every infrastructure change. did your devs actually get any new self-service tools, or was it just a change in the org chart?