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Platform Building Blocks

Core capabilities every enterprise platform considers. Each page covers responsibilities, capabilities, patterns, KPIs, and reference tech.

Web AppsMobileAPIsServiceMeshAuth ServiceUser ServiceOrder ServicePayment ServiceNotificationUser DBOrder DBCacheQueueLoad Balancing • Circuit Breaking • Observability • Security

Application & Services

The foundational layer that encapsulates the enterprise's business logic and capabilities, regardless of architectural style. This block represents the 'source of truth' for business functionality.

🔒 Security & ObservabilityAppsQueuesStreamsServicesAnalyticsTLS/mTLS • RBAC • Tracing

Messaging & Streaming Platform

Asynchronous messaging and streaming infrastructure for decoupled, reactive systems — from simple queues/topics to log-based streams and processing, with comprehensive security and observability.

IntegrationHubLegacyERPSaaSCRMREST • SOAP • EDI • SFTP

Enterprise Integration

Patterns and tooling to connect heterogeneous systems reliably and securely.

MobileWebAPIAPIGatewayPoliciesService AService BService CAuth • Rate Limiting • Analytics

API Management

QOS layer for services: designing, publishing, securing, monitoring, and scaling APIs so they're safe and easy to use

UsersAppsServicesIAMAuthN/AuthZFederationAPIDataAppsOIDC • SAML • JWT • mTLS

Identity & Access Management

Centralized identity, authentication, authorization, and federation for users and services.

DevTeamsDeveloperPortalSelf-ServiceGolden PathsCI/CDK8sObservabilitySecurityTemplates • Catalogs • Scorecards

Internal Developer Platform

Golden paths, paved roads, and self-service capabilities for teams to ship reliably.

AppsAPIsStreamsFilesDataLakehouseBronze•Silver•GoldBIMLAPIsReportsLineage • Quality • Governance

Data Platform

Lakehouse, BI/analytics, and ML pipelines with governance, quality, and lineage.

Training DataReal-time DataFeature StoreData Prep& TrainingModelRegistryLLM APIsVision APIsSpeech APIsCustom ModelsChatbotsAnalyticsAutomationAI/ML Orchestration PlatformWorkflow • Monitoring • GovernanceMLOps • AutoML • Model Serving • AI Governance

AI/ML & Intelligent Services Platform

Where your data platform feeds into inference, model deployment, and continuous learning pipelines. This building block turns data into intelligence by managing ML models, embeddings, vector databases, and generative AI services.

SourcesNetworkTCP L4 • eBPFApplicationAPIs • GatewayServicesMicroservicesRuntimeK8s • JVM • DBCollectioneBPF AgentsOTel SDKOTel CollectorDataDog AgentSignalsMetricsTracesLogsProfilesEventsBackendsDataDog SuiteELK StackPrometheusJaeger/TempoCorrelationEngineService • Env • VersionOutputsDashboardsAlertsSLOsIncidentsRunbooksMTTD • MTTR • PII Scrubbing • Intelligent SamplingCross-Layer Correlation • Chaos Testing • Error Budgets

Observability & Monitoring

Digital platform observability and monitoring with comprehensive telemetry, distributed tracing, and multi-layer visibility for reliable operations.