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Explore the critical balance between innovation speed and psychological safety in platform engineering through this 16-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2025. Discover how platform teams and abstractions can create environments that foster both creativity and developer success, while examining how platform choices directly impact the developers they're designed to optimize for. Learn about different toolchain options and understand the key trade-offs between building for perfect products (unicorns) versus enabling developer success in challenging real-world environments (mudders). Gain insights into making more informed decisions about platform architecture and tooling that will ultimately drive better outcomes for your development teams and organization.
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Unicorns or mudders? - Michael Wood | PlatformCon 2025
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