Kiran Kumar Patibandla will discuss the need for a paradigm shift from a traditional product development approach to platform-driven thinking. He will highlight how this change, initiated during product ideation and development, ensures that digital products evolve into scalable, modular platforms that meet the needs of Operations, SRE, and Support teams from the outset rather than post-production. By adopting platform design thinking, products can become modular, allowing them to transition from monolithic to micro-featured architectures. This shift also enhances scalability, enabling the growth of modular components, and ensures extensibility for integrating new features. Furthermore, platform-driven products come with built-in alerting mechanisms for effective debugging and reduce costs by minimizing the need for re-architecture and lowering the burden on DevOps, SRE, and support teams. Through this talk, Kiran will provide insights into how embracing platform-driven thinking can revolutionize the product development process, resulting in products that are not only robust but also more efficient and future-ready.