We Interviewed 100 Eng Teams. The Problem With Modern Engineering Isn’t Speed. It’s Chaos.

Last year, our team spent a lot of time interviewing fellow Platform, DevOps, DevEx, CI/CD, and SRE engineers, as well as engineering leaders, in order to better understand their day-to-day challenges. We began this effort to see how Earthfiles, one of our products, could serve engineering teams at scale. But as we spoke to more and more people, we realized that platform engineering as an industry is on a collision course with something far more painful and visceral than just build speed.