Platform Coffee - 2025-10-16: Platform as a Product

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# Platform Coffee - 2025-10-16: Platform as a Product

- Participants: 13
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## Topics (4 Notes)

- When do you say no?
- Who are your customers?
- Do you have any way to measure customer satisfaction?
- platform as product

## Done (5 Notes)

- Do you have to have a dedicated product manager?
- Recommended reading? Looking for books to read that focus on Platform engineering concepts.  
- What are the differences between building a platform for typical applications vs building a platform for GenAI applications? (If any?)
- FFC - Is the top Predictor for Platform Success: Self-service?
- Are inner-sourcing problems the same as open-source problems?

## Links/Info (13 Notes)

- https://git-proxy.finos.org/
- Inner sourcing needs governance, needs contribution policies, and people dedicated to the open-source office who manage contributions.
- Forking: It's harder to fork a platform than an open source project... you don't have access to underlying resources.
- User Needs Mapping
https://userneedsmapping.com/book/
- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-engineering/9781098153632/
Camille Fournier, Ian Nowland
- Platform Engineering Pulse
https://octopus.com/publications/platform-engineering-pulse
- Domain Driven Design
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/domain-driven-design-tackling/0321125215/
- Platform Engineering
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-engineering/9781098153632/
- Platform Strategy by Gregor Hohpe
https://leanpub.com/platformstrategy
- https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/14/microsoft-raises-the-bar-a-smarter-way-to-measure-ai-for-cybersecurity/  
- https://leanpub.com/platformstrategy
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Leadership_Is_Language/JzHJDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

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