Language

Shared nomenclature consistently used by both technical and non-technical stakeholders within an organization, fostering a common understanding of terms and concepts relevant to the domain.

Nomenclature	Description
Infrastructure	The set of systems and underlying resources that serve an organization and encompasses the services necessary for its teams and applications to function.
"as Code"	The term "as code," means applying the relative lessons learned in the software world to infrastructure. Some critical practices include source control and clean code for readability, changeability, extensibility, and maintainability, along with automated testing and continuous delivery.
Early Infrastructure	The often legacy infrastructure that an organization initially builds to support its teams and applications. This infrastructure may serve a necessary role in ongoing processes or persist without justification, remaining in place despite not being essential in a modern-day flow.
Platform	A comprehensive ecosystem of tools, processes, and services, thoughtfully crafted as a compelling internal product that empowers engineers to autonomously move from source code to production safely and securely, with full support from day-0 to day-n.