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To introduce the Platform Gravity conceptual framework to explain why internal developer platforms become organizational defaults or marginal tools through the dynamics of adoption, friction, and complexity.

September 17, 2026Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOpen Access

Platform engineering as organizational strategy: platform gravity, friction, and the economics of scaling internal developer platforms

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Conceptual framework demonstrates how platform gravity and friction govern internal developer platform adoption in software organizations, highlighting strategic trade-offs under AI-assisted...

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To introduce the Platform Gravity conceptual framework to explain why internal developer platforms become organizational defaults or marginal tools through the dynamics of adoption, friction, and complexity.
Synthesized multidisciplinary literature spanning socio-technical congruence, Conway's Law, platform governance, developer experience, and AI-assisted software engineering.
Formulated heuristic stylized models alongside diagnostic tables and proxy metrics to operationalize platform friction, organizational complexity, and return on investment.
Analyzed two anonymized organizational vignettes to illustrate socio-technical mechanisms governing platform integration.
Characterized platform friction as a latent construct capturing cumulative resistance across platform evaluation, adoption, usage, and extension.
Identified that lowering the marginal cost of code generation via artificial intelligence increases the organizational necessity for governed defaults, ownership boundaries, and verification paths.
Demonstrated that platform engineering investment must be evaluated across cost, engineering flow, and operational risk reduction rather than single-dimensional productivity metrics.

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Phani Vasishta Kuruganti (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb6f95f706d05830e5cec https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-026-00972-9

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Conceptual framework demonstrates how platform gravity and friction govern internal developer platform adoption in software organizations, highlighting strategic trade-offs under AI-assisted...

Platform engineering as organizational strategy: platform gravity, friction, and the economics of scaling internal developer platforms

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Platform engineering as organizational strategy: platform gravity, friction, and the economics of scaling internal developer platforms

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