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title: "The dangers of unreliable platforms (on the SRE Path podcast)"
description: "I was interviewed for the SRE Path podcast. This is a summary of that interview."
url: "https://www.rubick.com/interview-sre-path/"
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# The dangers of unreliable platforms (on the SRE Path podcast)

March 18, 2024 by Jade Rubick

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[Ash Patel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-patel-srepath/) interviewed me for the [SRE Path](https://www.srepath.com) podcast. He said the conversation got “spicier and spicier. At one point, I was hunting for my favorite sparkling passionfruit drink to cool thinks down.”

![Podcast](https://www.rubick.com/_astro/podcast.DjlE3PDf_1guQi8.webp)

This was the spicy part:

“One of the challenges you’ll sometimes find in organizations is that platform engineering teams can be the source of a lot of work for the rest of the organization. Every time you deprecate an API or create a standard approach that requires migration, you are creating work for all your consumers. The purpose of a platform team is to drive efficiencies in the rest of engineering, not cause additional work!”

We also talked about:

-   Focusing platform organizations on their customers.
-   How I’ve gone about diagnosing team issues.

You can find the episode [here](https://www.srepath.com/danger-of-unreliable-platform-engineering/).

## Thank you

[Ash Patel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-patel-srepath/) wrote up a great summary of the conversation. Really appreciated his invitation to be on the podcast!

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I like to share what I’ve learned. If you’re running into something like this at your company, [I’m happy to talk](https://www.rubick.com/work-with-me/).