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4 questions in Abstraction Level Choice.

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A platform must choose how much of the underlying infrastructure to abstract. What decides the level?

A platform team must decide how much to abstract the underlying infrastructure. What goes wrong at each extreme, and how do you choose?

An internal platform must decide how much of the underlying infrastructure to hide. What determines the right abstraction level, and what happens at each extreme?

Your platform abstracts Kubernetes entirely — teams write a short manifest and everything is generated. Now every production incident escalates to the platform team. What is happening?