A STAFF ENGINEER'S GUIDE TO INVENTING WORK

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Platform engineers often need to create their own roadmap by reading signals from systems, users, the organization, and the wider industry. Useful inputs include postmortem patterns, cost centers, user workarounds, migration holdouts, repeated leadership concerns, and ideas that have already matured elsewhere. The goal is to combine strong evidence with leading indicators instead of chasing only the loudest recent problem.