Platform architecture
Map applications to infrastructure, tenancy and network boundaries. Choose the resource model around how teams provision, connect and operate their workloads.
Cloud infrastructure that fits the workload.
We engineer cloud platforms and the systems around them: compute, data services, application delivery, identity and operations.
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Application and data services
Integrate compute, managed databases and object storage. Design connection paths, configuration and service interfaces that application teams can work with.
Identity and platform control
Connect authentication, roles and tenant boundaries. Build the management experience around the resources and actions each user is responsible for.
Operations and cost visibility
Bring deployment, monitoring, usage metering and billing into the platform design. Define how usage is measured and how an operator investigates a discrepancy.
The decisions that shape the system
What needs isolation?
Workload, network, data and administrative boundaries need explicit choices. The right design depends on who owns each resource and what it can access.
What does recovery mean?
Specify backup, restore and failure scenarios against the application’s needs. Recovery objectives should be agreed and tested, not implied by a cloud label.
How is consumption explained?
Follow resource usage from collection to aggregation and presentation. Make units, time windows and billing rules understandable.
System building blocks
- Platform and tenancy architecture
- Infrastructure and service integration
- Resource management and observability
- Operational handover and cost model
Horizon Cloud: our own platform
Our own cloud work spans infrastructure, database access, identity, a resource console and usage billing. Horizon Cloud is in development. Building the operating experience ourselves informs the questions we bring to platform engineering.
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