Platform & DevOps·Running it: capacity, failure and recovery
doing it the standard way gets you logging, tracing, secrets and a pipeline for free; doing it your own way is allowed and unsupported.
Paved road
Also calledpaved path, supported path
A well-supported default route through the platform that is easier than the alternatives, without being mandatory. The consent matters: the road is chosen because it is genuinely faster, and the escape hatch exists so unusual cases do not have to fight. Its health is measured by what fraction of new services take it, and a paved road nobody uses is a statement about the road.