Thinking in Platforms • Kasper von Grünberg & Luca Galante • GOTO 2026

Why watch

In this GOTO Book Club interview, co-authors Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante discuss their book "Thinking in Platforms" and the emergence of platform engineering as a field. They trace the discipline back to the "key person dependency" problem—where a single backend engineer can hold a company hostage—and explain how platform engineering applies the same industrialization principles Henry Ford brought to manufacturing. The interview is aimed at engineers and engineering leaders interested in understanding how to treat internal platform setup as a product rather than something that "just happens" to a team.