https://rtnpro.com/tags/Vercel/Recent content in Vercel on rtnproHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530https://rtnpro.com/post/2026-07-09-the-missing-middle/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530https://rtnpro.com/post/2026-07-09-the-missing-middle/<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>There is a size of engineering organization that platform tooling has quietly failed.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>