[Verse 1] Two camps were fighting, pulling apart Silos versus chaos, where do we start? Operations locked in their ivory tower While developers drown without the power But there's a third way, a bridge between The smartest solution you've ever seen [Chorus] Build the rails, let them run Platform team sets the foundation Developers own what they've begun Services in production station Rails below, trains above Different layers, perfect love That's the practical middle ground Where balance can be found [Verse 2] Platform crafts the golden pathways Standardized pipelines, infrastructure always Internal platforms, modules ready-made While dev teams sprint on the tracks they've laid Own your service from deploy to crash Platform owns the underlying dash [Chorus] Build the rails, let them run Platform team sets the foundation Developers own what they've begun Services in production station Rails below, trains above Different layers, perfect love That's the practical middle ground Where balance can be found [Bridge] Not either-or, it's both and when Different abstractions, different men Cognitive load versus silos recreated Both disasters can be eliminated Function here, ownership there Split responsibilities with care [Verse 3] Tractable ownership, that's the key Platform makes it possible to see Your service health from birth to grave While platform keeps the infrastructure brave Two levels working, never apart Engineering's beating, synchronized heart [Chorus] Build the rails, let them run Platform team sets the foundation Developers own what they've begun Services in production station Rails below, trains above Different layers, perfect love That's the practical middle ground Where balance can be found [Outro] Self-sufficient developers ride On reliable platform's steady guide The practical middle saves the day DevOps done the balanced way
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