# What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

<https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

This positions platform in a way as the technical manifestation of mature technology choices. One of my favorite interview questions is "what is the difference between a product and a platform?" This would be a good answer to that.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT44: Weekly Thing #44 / Mar 10, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/44/), Tech

## Same host

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- [How to break a Monolith into Microservices](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/227cfeaf8d61/) (martinfowler.com, April 25, 2018)
- [The State of Agile Software in 2018](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0f4ef7971218/) (martinfowler.com, September 8, 2018)
- [LockInCost](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f58f85bd3e8b/) (martinfowler.com, March 7, 2019)

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## Elsewhere

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