The Trouble with Platforms (solutionspace.blog)

I think this is a good point.

alot of smaller tools, services components etc.

I would also add you need a good way to discover those things across an organization.

This is a good article but I can’t avoid mentioning the haircut in the illustration! What is going on there???

This is relevant to the classic 'frameworks vs libraries' comparison. Sometimes the hardest part of an implementation with a framework is fitting your solution into the framework, especially when you begin to stretch the assumptions of the framework. The gluing-together-libraries approach allows you to make the structure of the program fit the problem (at the additional expense of having to write more boilerplate).