What Is a Golden Path in Platform Engineering? Why Modern Engineering Teams Are Building Them

As engineering organisations grow, something interesting happens. The number of developers increases. The number of services increases. The number of cloud resources increases. The number of tools increases. And eventually, a simple question becomes surprisingly difficult: 'What is the right way to build and deploy a new service?' A developer might need to decide: At a small company, these decisions can be handled through conversations. At hundreds or thousands of engineers, that approach doesn't scale.