# How the platform works

> Services, gateways, identity, events and logs: the architecture behind DashForDevs, with diagrams you can step through.

- [Architecture overview](https://docs.dashfordevs.com/v1/how-it-works/architecture.md): One public door, one private corridor, and a service for each kind of data.
- [Identity and sign-in](https://docs.dashfordevs.com/v1/how-it-works/identity-and-sign-in.md): How people prove who they are, and how every app trusts that.
- [Events, traces and audit logs](https://docs.dashfordevs.com/v1/how-it-works/events-and-logs.md): How services tell each other what happened, and how every action is recorded.
- [Versioning and compatibility](https://docs.dashfordevs.com/v1/how-it-works/versioning.md): What v1 promises, and how changes reach you without breaking you.