Platform engineering has become the most crowded acronym soup in infrastructure. Every plane comes with a dozen vendors claiming to solve the same problem in a slightly different way, and most explainers either drown you in logos or oversimplify until the diagram is useless. Here is what each layer actually does, category by category. We have roughly 6 planes we can divide the platform engineering landscape into.
Developer control plane
Integration and Delivery Plane
Infra Control Plane
Observability Plane
Security Plane
Resource Plane
Here is a the visual map of all the layer before we break it down fully layer by layer…
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