Client & Edge Layer
Web / Mobile SDK
PWA, Native iOS/Android, GraphQL Client
Edge CDN
Cloudflare + Fastly, 200+ PoPs
WAF & DDoS
Rate limiting, bot mitigation, threat shielding
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Application Layer
API Gateway
Kong + Envoy, auth, routing, versioning
Content Service
Microservice, Go + gRPC, article lifecycle
AI Verification
Multimodal LLM, fact-checking, bias detection
User & Auth
OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, session management
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Data & Storage Layer
Primary DB
CockroachDB, geo-partitioned, ACID
Search & Index
Elasticsearch cluster, vector embeddings
Object Storage
S3-compatible, media assets, backups
Message Queue
Apache Kafka, event streaming, CDC
Live Performance Metrics
Request Latency (p95)
-18%
32ms
Edge Cache Hit Rate
Stable
94.2%
AI Processing Queue
Clearing
1.2k req/s
Database Connections
Optimized
840/1200
Content Ingestion & Verification Pipeline
01
Ingestion
API endpoints, webhooks, and crawler nodes collect raw feeds, editor submissions, and third-party syndication.
02
Normalization
Schema validation, metadata extraction, format conversion, and deduplication via Apache Beam.
03
AI Verification
Cross-referencing, source credibility scoring, sentiment analysis, and hallucination detection.
04
Editorial Review
Human-in-the-loop workflow with conflict resolution, priority routing, and compliance checks.
05
Publication
Scheduled or immediate deployment to CDN, search index update, and webhook notifications.
06
Analytics
Real-time engagement tracking, performance monitoring, and feedback loop to ingestion models.
All pipeline stages are stateless, horizontally scalable, and backed by exactly-once Kafka consumers. Failure modes trigger automatic circuit breakers and fallback queues.
Security & Compliance Architecture
Zero Trust Network
Mutual TLS, service mesh identity, and continuous authentication for all internal traffic. No implicit trust boundaries.
Data Encryption
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Customer keys (BYOK) supported for enterprise clients. Automated key rotation.
Compliance Framework
GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001 certified. Automated compliance scanning and audit logging.
Threat Detection
Real-time SIEM integration, behavioral analytics, automated incident response, and DDoS mitigation at edge.
Content Integrity
Cryptographic signing for published articles. Blockchain-anchored metadata for tamper-proof archival and provenance.
Access Governance
RBAC + ABAC policies, JIT privilege elevation, session recording, and mandatory break-glass protocols.
Technology Stack
Infrastructure
AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Helm
ArgoCD
Cloudflare
Backend
Go
Rust
Node.js
gRPC
GraphQL
tRPC
Data & AI
CockroachDB
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
Kafka
Redis
PyTorch
Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
Jaeger
Datadog
OpenTelemetry
PagerDuty