Domain name

As explained in Effective Platform Engineering

A domain name is a human-readable hierarchical identifier used to locate resources in the Domain Name System.

A domain name is a human-readable hierarchical identifier that DNS translates into an IP address, making services discoverable and reachable through familiar names. section 7.1.3

Platform teams treat naming as a product decision, not merely infrastructure. Consistent domains and subdomains help internal and external users understand which digital product a service belongs to and how to access it. section 7.1.3

Service access through DNS

A customer profile service can be exposed at https://api.epetech.io/v1/profiles. The domain identifies the service family, while the path identifies a specific resource. A platform can provide self-service configuration for delegated zones such as api.epetech.io, dev.api.epetech.io, and preview.epetech.io. section 7.1.3

Figure 7.3 Our engineering platform must provide a self-serve experience for each internal customer (development team) to configure their service to receive traffic based on our company’s “product” decision for how the DNS domain and subdomain names reflect our digital products.

Shows how platform self-service connects domain and subdomain naming decisions with developers’ ability to configure traffic for their services. section 7.1.3

How Effective Platform Engineering covers it

How deep it goes

Defines DNS-based service location and outlines hosted-zone setup, while deferring general DNS architecture.

Examples

Uses api.epetech.io, delegated environment subdomains, Google APIs, Route53 zones, and Terraform configuration.

What you can do after

Operate/configure hosted zones and delegated subdomains for services through a platform-oriented DNS design.

How it connects

Connects DNS, Domain Name System, hosted zones, subdomains, APIs, and service-resource paths.

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Related concepts

• domain name systemused by · The Domain Name System is a distributed, hierarchical naming system that resolves domain names to IP addresses and other network resource records.
• regular expressionused by · A formal pattern notation that describes sets of strings and enables text to be matched, searched, extracted, or transformed.
• wildcardused by · A wildcard is a pattern symbol or expression that matches unspecified or variable characters, values, names, types, or path segments.
• object storeuses · An object store is a storage system that stores and retrieves data as independently addressable objects containing content and associated metadata.
• IP addressequivalent to · An IP address is a numerical address used by the Internet Protocol to identify a network interface and support packet delivery across networks.

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