The Missing Middle: Why Mid-Market Platform Teams Are Stuck Between Backstage and Vercel
Overview There is a size of engineering organization that platform tooling has quietly failed. If you are Google, you build your platform. You have twenty engineers who work on nothing but the platform, and the leverage is obvious: one paved road, used by a thousand developers, pays for itself many times over. If you are four people with a Rails app and a deadline, you rent a platform. You push to a branch, a preview URL appears, and you have never once thought about an ingress controller. That is the correct trade. ...