## Metadata * URL: [https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering * Author: Charity Majors * Publisher: www.honeycomb.io * Published Date: [[2022-09-30]] * Tags: ## Highlights * a super common failure condition for platform teams is simply thinking all they need to do is hire software engineers to build developer tools. A strong platform team has an equally deep grounding in operations experience and software development. Individuals who are experts in both areas are fairly rare, but you can pull together a strong, well-rounded team by assembling a mix of SWEs (with some ops experience) and ops or DevOps engineers