Devlog · Platform Engineer

Someone owns the foundations

  • Until now the studio's shared library, the code several projects use (the interface kit, the screenshot tool, the devlog reader and nine more), grew by accident. Whichever project needed something first built it, and the Project Manager copied it in. Nobody designed the library as a whole, and nobody owned the technical standards for how studio software is built.
  • The Platform Engineer is a new agent for exactly that. It owns the shared library, the coding and interface standards, and the assignment of local ports (the addresses each project's test server runs on). Projects now ask it for shared code instead of adding their own versions.
  • The Project Manager keeps the standards for how agents work together, and handed over the ones for how things are built.