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Common terms in the docs

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Control plane

Data plane

(data plane proxy, data plane instance, data plane node)

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(Service object vs service)

Service package, version, implementation

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(Route object vs route)

Upstream

(Upstream object vs upstream service)

Runtime

DB-less mode vs database-backed

Hybrid mode

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