The parable of the blind men and the elephant provides us with a way to understand why people can disagree on a new topic: by looking at it from only their own perspective, they miss out on the greater whole. Platform engineering is a relatively new approach to software delivery that is being examined by IT organizations and software engineering teams — with a lot of disagreement between them about what it is, what it does, and why you should or should not adopt it. We believe that it's importan...