Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be "completed," but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the "why" scales much better than the "what" in large enterprises. We also dive into the often-overlooked role of designers in creating platform tools that developers actually want to use.
Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations. We follow the work wherever it actually leads.
Check us out Tuesdays at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time!
Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be "completed," but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the "why" scales much better than the "what" in large enterprises. We also dive into the often-overlooked role of designers in creating platform tools that developers actually want to use.
Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations. We follow the work wherever it actually leads.
Check us out Tuesdays at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time!
