Designing impactful features from first principles

Deleting 70% of your platform complexity is the only way to achieve 10x engineering velocity. This isn't opinion. It's math. Every platform component adds: ↳ 12 hours/month maintenance ↳ 3 potential failure points ↳ 5 new monitoring alerts ↳ 2 required expertise areas With 20+ components, your team spends more time managing the platform than using it. Platform Fix OS has proven this with 50+ transformations: ↳ Reduce components by 70% ↳ Increase velocity by 10x ↳ Cut operational burden by 80% The formula is simple. The execution requires discipline. Most teams add tools to solve problems. Winners remove tools to eliminate problems. Your move. — Enjoy this? ♻️ Repost it to your network and follow Steve Wade for more. Get my free weekly frameworks that show you the exact methods I use to simplify K8s platforms. Join 500+ engineers here: https://lnkd.in/eYiAF8TP

Productivity is not about how fast you code. It is about knowing what makes your company or your client’s company successful. Learn the customers. Learn the business. Then you will know how to bring the right engineering solution to the problem.

Stop asking "How much does this solution cost?" Start asking "What value will this create?". The cost of the right technology is always less than the cost of the wrong decision.

It takes time to build a system.💡 It takes even longer to validate it.📈 But once you’ve done that, repeating it is almost automatic.⚡️

PROMPT ENGINEERING The right prompt determines the quality of the responses we get from one tool to another. Generic responses don’t answer many questions and may not give insights that are particular to the scenario at hand, as you still end up doing a lot of work. With the right prompt, we would have done much in less than. That’s effectiveness! Nothing beats that.

Every customer request sounds reasonable in isolation. Every competitor feature feels like table stakes. Every stakeholder has "just one small addition." However, we've learned that complexity is the worst enemy of reliability. The Minimal O1 succeeds because it masters three functions, not because it attempts thirty. Our current strategies: For every new feature request: "What can we remove instead?" Measure success by problems solved, not features shipped Make feature advocates prove the case for "yes" But honestly? It's an uphill battle. The pressure to add never stops. Your turn: What's keeping you up at night as an engineer? Technical debt that's become technical bankruptcy? Resource constraints killing your timeline? Quality vs. speed trade-offs? Team scaling challenges? Something else entirely? Drop your challenge below Maybe we can crowdsource some solutions. Sometimes the best engineering insights come from engineers helping engineers. #Engineering #TechChallenges #ProductDevelopment #TeamBuilding #minimalengineering

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Time is more than money—it’s competitive advantage. With Engineering Workbench, engineers reduce research time by 20% and launch products up to 4 months faster. Faster access to standards means fewer mistakes and stronger market leadership.

Every delay carries a cost. Engineering Workbench eliminates bottlenecks, giving engineers quick access to trusted standards. The result: fewer mistakes, faster launches, and a decisive first-to-market advantage.

Lost time in research is lost opportunity. Engineering Workbench helps engineers cut research by 20% and accelerate launches by up to 4 months. Speed and accuracy give teams the first-to-market advantage they need.