As developer and data platforms mature, they tend to sprawl across surfaces: command-line tools, IDE integrations, APIs, and increasingly rich web UIs. Each surface serves a different mode of work, a different cognitive posture, and often a different class of user. The challenge isn’t simply supporting all of them—it’s creating continuity across them without collapsing everything into a lowest-common-denominator experience.

At Gauge, we've seen this evolution firsthand at companies like Loggly, n...