🎁 Your Early Supporter Bundle
An Amazon gift card covering the full book price, emailed on launch day in August 2026 so your purchase counts on day one
Limited edition socks on us, free, shipped to you, because you believed in this before anyone else did
About the Book
The operating model for the modern enterprise
Leading organizations think in platforms. They understand what most still miss: work can be designed, operated, and improved as a production system.
They do not leave recurring work to scattered tools, informal coordination, meetings, tickets, and heroic individuals. They design the system around knowledge work, turning repeated intent into reliable outcomes at scale.
This is the promise of platform engineering.
Thinking in Platforms shows how a practice born in software development becomes a broader discipline for redesigning work itself. AI accelerates this shift. Humans and agents cannot operate reliably inside fragmented systems. They need clear interfaces and reusable capabilities, shaped in a repeatable manner as paths.
For leaders, builders, and operators, this book offers a conceptual model and practical playbook for redesigning how modern organizations work. It applies to the fields of software, marketing, sales, finance, legal, or any other form of knowledge work.
The next productivity wave belongs to organizations that think in platforms.
Part
I
How to Think in Platforms
Production systems, misconceptions that block platform thinking, and the value vectors where structural improvement compounds over time.
Part
II
A Conceptual Model of Platforms
The Paths to Outcome model paths, capabilities, interfaces, identity, policy, and state. Applied across software, marketing, and healthcare.
Part
III
The Platform Engineering Playbook
MVP Program → Production Readiness Program → Platform Scaling Program. The 3×3 method, onboarding loop, ROI calculation, and roadmap design.
Inside the Book
The biggest improvements in organizational performance rarely come from working harder. The most successful companies turn knowledge work into scalable production systems.
The authors
The people who built the discipline
Kaspar von Grünberg
Author
An early pioneer of the platform engineering discipline. Over the past decade he has designed reference architectures, built platforms hands-on with hundreds of enterprise leaders, and coined terms like "Internal Developer Platform" that the field now runs on. One of the few who has built at scale and written the theory to explain it.
Luca Galante
Managing Director, Weave Intelligence
Analyst and community leader in platform engineering. As managing director at Weave Intelligence, he benchmarks how the discipline is practiced across hundreds of enterprises. Hosts PlatformCon: the world's largest platform engineering conference, and writes Platform Weekly, read by more than 100,000 platform engineers every Friday.
Early supporter bundle
"We want to give back to the people who believed in this before the rest of the world caught up."
This book exists because of a community of platform engineers who've been asking for it for years. So here's the deal: you pay €29.90 today.
Then on launch day in August 2026, we email you an Amazon gift card covering the full book price. You order the physical book on Amazon, it costs you nothing extra, and your purchase counts toward the launch-day ranking spike that gets the book in front of the people who need it.
And as a thank you: every supporter gets a free limited edition socks, shipped directly to you.
What's Included
Amazon Gift Card
Emailed on launch day in August 2026. Covers the full book price on Amazon
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How it works
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You pay today
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€29.90 for the full bundle.
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In August, you receive an Amazon gift card worth the full book price.
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AI amplifies what you have — it doesn't turn a failing system into a winning one. Organizations only unlock real productivity gains when AI runs on top of clear interfaces, clean data, documented workflows, and deterministic systems. The platform is the prerequisite.
— From the preface of Thinking in Platforms