Platform Engineering Blog: Architecture, Automation & Scale

Omnistrate launches a revamped DevX suite: featuring frictionless Onboarding V2, unified CLI tools, a Web Code Editor, and Day-1 debugging.

Cloud marketplaces streamline procurement and co-selling, but a critical infrastructure gap remains between purchase and tenant provisioning.

Delivering software into on-premises enterprise environments is a challenge many vendors are still struggling to solve. As IT leaders look for seamless distribution, effortless operations, and robust customer experiences, they quickly discover that most solutions in the market are limited to one-off packaging or manual deployment tooling.

When teams talk about Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) enablement, the conversation often gets conflated with tools that only address small slices of the problem. At first glance, platforms like Nuon might appear to help you “run in your customer’s environment,” but what they actually provide is far narrower.

In the software industry, entrepreneurs have to go through 4 phases of innovation to build a product: Idea: What change are they trying to make?

Now in Part 3, we turn to the solution: What if you didn’t have to abandon your existing stack, but could augment it with a purpose-built control plane, one that handled tenant lifecycle, deployment..

Imagine a data analytics SaaS startup, “DataCo”, that wants to build Redis SaaS as an example.

Modern platform engineering teams often assemble “DIY” control planes for their Products using open-source building blocks: Kubernetes for the runtime, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, and..

On March 7th, 2025, we kicked off the inaugural session of SaaS Mondays, Live on Fridays, a new biweekly LinkedIn Live series dedicated to fostering discussions among SaaS builders, founders,...

One of the most common questions for any developer-focused product is whether to build or buy.

Hello, and welcome to this blog of Control Plane! Today, I'm going to explain the concept of control plane for software as a service (SaaS) world, and help you understand it better.

Building software distribution channel(s) is hard, costly and time-consuming. I have discussed the challenges in building and operating your Control Plane before.

I was among the authors at AWS who pioneered the first SaaS control plane back in 2009, laying the groundwork for many SaaS offerings both within and beyond AWS.

Building upon our initial introduction of the control and data planes, this post delves deep into the interplay between these two planes.

In the world of computing and cloud services, the terms "control plane" and “data plane” are increasingly mentioned, even though these are actually older terms that originally came about in the...