As organisations grow, they need to be more nimble which leads to a desire to simplify, whether for developers or business. We typically see organisations stumble through accelerating development, implementing DevOps before pivoting to SRE. They copy what other organisations have done by implementing a Cloud Center of Excellence or adopting other models for merging development and operating functions. Eventually as the challenges around “You build it, you run it” become clearer a platform emerges. But how do these chaotic transformations lead to this convergence? Whether your platform serves developers or customers the foundational concepts heavily align. In this talk we’ll look at the ways platforms emerge and the key considerations necessary for one to succeed. As we go through time to understand how convergence happens we will examine carcinisation to understand how organizations unintentionally select for elements which converge towards a platform