Platform engineering has its own vocabulary. Practise the collocations used by platform teams building internal developer platforms.
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Fill in: 'The platform team's primary mission is to ___ toil so developers can focus on product work.'
We 'reduce toil' — 'reduce toil' is the SRE/platform-engineering standard phrase from Google's SRE book referring to minimising repetitive manual work. 'Eliminate toil' is aspirational but less common; 'cut' and 'remove' are informal and don't collocate naturally with 'toil'.
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Fill in: 'Our goal this quarter is to ___ an internal developer platform with a self-service portal.'
We 'build an IDP' (internal developer platform) — 'build' is the standard engineering collocation for constructing a platform or system. 'Create' is more abstract; 'develop' is correct but often refers to software in general; 'make' is informal.
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Fill in: 'The platform layer is designed to ___ infrastructure complexity from application teams.'
We 'abstract complexity' — 'abstract' is the precise software/platform collocation for encapsulating complexity behind a clean interface. 'Hide' is informal; 'remove' suggests elimination rather than encapsulation; 'separate' implies decoupling, not abstraction.
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Fill in: 'Good platform engineering means ___ the road so teams don't need to solve the same problems repeatedly.'
We 'pave the road' — a widely used platform-engineering metaphor for creating well-lit, low-friction paths so teams can move fast without reinventing solutions. 'Building the road' is literal infrastructure; 'clearing' and 'making' don't carry the same idiomatic meaning.
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Fill in: 'The new CI templates ___ self-service deployments without needing ops involvement.'
We 'enable self-service' — 'enable' is the standard collocation in platform language meaning to make a capability possible for others. 'Allow self-service' is grammatically correct but slightly more passive; 'support' implies tooling assistance; 'provide self-service' is acceptable but less idiomatic.