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To build systems that can withstand infrastructure failures, network partitions, and security threats without human intervention, platform engineers must master the art of building custom control planes.",{"type":21,"children":26},[27],{"type":19,"text":28},"This advanced learning path is designed for senior systems engineers, platform architects, and site reliability engineers (SREs) who want to transition from traditional infrastructure management to building custom, resilient cloud-native control planes. By the end of this roadmap, you will have designed, built, and deployed a fully functional, dynamic control plane that automates infrastructure provisioning, manages distributed state, routes traffic dynamically, and enforces zero-trust security policies.",{"type":15,"level":30,"children":31},2,[32],{"type":19,"text":33},"Prerequisites",{"type":21,"children":35},[36],{"type":19,"text":37},"Before embarking on this advanced learning path, you should possess a strong foundation in the following areas:",{"type":39,"format":40,"children":41},"list","unordered",[42,47,51,55,59],{"type":43,"children":44},"list-item",[45],{"type":19,"text":46},"Systems Programming and Scripting: Proficiency in at least one modern programming language used in cloud-native development, preferably Go, Python, or TypeScript. 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