Domain platform
A domain platform provides reusable capabilities and workflows for products or teams within a particular business or organizational domain.
Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
A horizontal is a shared business or technical capability that serves multiple verticals.
- How it is used
- Frames reuse and centralization decisions for organizations with multiple products, verticals, or markets.
- How deep it goes
- Explains economies of scale, bottlenecks, and governance trade-offs, but stops short of implementation detail.
- Examples
- Uses Uber fulfillment, BBC horizontal domains, shared booking, centralized identity, and centralized-versus-decentralized macrostructures.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate centralization choices and map shared capabilities against user experience, demand, funding, dependencies, and delivery speed.
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
A platform designed to support the workflows and requirements of a particular organizational or business domain rather than general use.
- How it is used
- Optimizes tools and workflows for teams delivering services in a specific domain.
- How deep it goes
- Traces a progression from application context through Kubernetes challenges to higher-level capabilities, deferring detailed tool treatment.
- Examples
- Uses a Conference application and a platform walking skeleton for safe feature development and experimentation.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch as higher-level capabilities that improve team productivity and reduce Kubernetes complexity.
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Related concepts
- cloud computingkind of · Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing resources and services over a network from remotely managed infrastructure.
- verticalcontrasts with · A vertical is a distinct market or business domain defined by a particular industry, application area, region, product line, or related requirements.
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