How Jit Builds a Platform Engineering Mindset in the Cloud

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Platform engineering is an emerging tech industry trend that typically has a team dedicated to building and integrating whatever developers need to build and run services in the cloud — without having to become experts in the often arduous art of cloud computing. But what if a cloud native, serverless-first company adopts a platform engineering mindset and discipline — in lieu of a dedicated team?

Developing a Platform Engineering Discipline

From the start, the Jit team also worked to automate as much of service creation as they could.

What distinguishes Jit from the other platform engineering teams we’ve spoken to is that they don’t have a dedicated team.

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