Digital Infrastructure — Aevum Encyclopedia

01 — Overview

Engineered for Scale, Accuracy & Speed

Aevum Encyclopedia's infrastructure is built on a multi-region, cloud-native architecture designed to handle petabyte-scale data ingestion, real-time AI inference, and sub-50ms content delivery. Every layer is optimized for reliability, security, and open academic access.

99.99%

Uptime SLA

15 PB

Stored Knowledge

42ms

Avg. Query Latency

Global Edge Regions

02 — Core Architecture

Distributed System Design

Our microservices ecosystem runs on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with automatic failover, horizontal scaling, and zero-downtime deployments.

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Global CDN & Edge Computing

Content delivered via 120+ PoPs with edge caching, dynamic compression, and protocol-aware routing (HTTP/3, QUIC).

Cloudflare + AWS CloudFront

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Distributed Database Clusters

Multi-region CockroachDB for ACID compliance, paired with Redis Cluster for session management and rate limiting.

CockroachDB + Redis

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Semantic Search Index

Elasticsearch + Qdrant vector database enabling hybrid keyword-embedding search with real-time ranking.

Elasticsearch + Qdrant

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AI/ML Inference Engine

GPU-accelerated pipelines running fine-tuned LLMs for fact verification, cross-referencing, and multilingual translation.

TensorRT + vLLM + CUDA

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API Gateway & Microservices

GraphQL + REST hybrid gateway with JWT auth, circuit breakers, and request tracing via OpenTelemetry.

Kong + gRPC + Go

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Real-Time Sync & WebSockets

Live collaborative editing, contributor notifications, and system status streaming via scalable WebSocket clusters.

Nginx + Socket.IO

03 — Technology Stack

Open Source & Enterprise Tools

We prioritize transparent, well-maintained, and community-backed technologies. Our stack is fully version-controlled and reproducible.

Backend & Runtime

Go 1.22

Python 3.12

Rust (CLI/Workers)

Node.js 20

Infrastructure & DevOps

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Data & Storage

CockroachDB

Qdrant

MinIO (S3-compatible)

Apache Kafka

Observability

Prometheus + Grafana

Loki + Tempo

OpenTelemetry

PagerDuty Integration

# Infrastructure as Code — Terraform Excerpt
resource "aws_ecs_cluster" "aevum_knowledge_graph" {
  name = "aevum-kg-prod-us-east-1"
  tags = {
    Environment = "production"
    ManagedBy   = "terraform"
    Compliance  = "ISO27001-GDPR"
  }
}
            

04 — Data Pipeline

From Ingestion to Delivery

Every article, dataset, and media asset passes through a rigorously validated, automated pipeline before reaching the global edge.

Ingestion & Intake

Contributor submissions, API imports, and web scrapers feed into Kafka topics with schema validation.

Validation & Review

Automated plagiarism checks, citation parsing, and expert routing for peer verification.

Vectorization & Embedding

Text is chunked and embedded using fine-tuned multilingual models for semantic indexing.

Indexing & Sync

Dual-write to relational DB and vector store. Elasticsearch rebuilds search indices incrementally.

Edge Delivery

Cdn push with stale-while-revalidate headers, Brotli compression, and adaptive image/video streaming.

05 — Security & Compliance

Enterprise-Grade Protection

Knowledge integrity requires uncompromising security. Our systems are built to defend against modern threats while maintaining open access principles.

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Zero-Trust Architecture

Identity-aware access, mutual TLS between services, and least-privilege RBAC across all internal and external endpoints.

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Threat Mitigation

WAF rules, DDoS absorption, rate limiting, bot detection, and automated incident response playbooks.

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Content Integrity

Immutable audit logs, cryptographic versioning, and rollback capabilities to preserve academic trust.

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Data Residency

Region-specific storage routing to comply with GDPR, CCPA, and emerging global data sovereignty laws.

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001:2022 GDPR Compliant CCPA Ready W3C Web Accessibility

06 — Engineering Contact

Partner or Integrate

Looking to build on our API, request custom data exports, or discuss enterprise infrastructure partnerships? Our engineering team is ready to help.

View API Documentation Contact Engineering Team