System Architecture Overview

Platform Engineering · 2026-03-16

Core Metrics

Availability
99.95%
↑ on target
P99 Latency
68ms
↓ good
Active Services
24
→ stable
Daily Requests
120M
↑ 8%
Error Rate
0.03%
↓ improved
Version
v4.2
↑ latest

Service Architecture

The system comprises 6 core microservices communicating via gRPC internally, unified behind an API Gateway for external access.

ServiceLangInstancesTeamStatus
api-gatewayGo4Platformrunning
user-serviceGo3Accountsrunning
order-serviceJava6Commercerunning
payment-serviceJava4Paymentsrunning
notify-serviceNode.js2Messagingdegraded
analytics-servicePython2Datarunning
⚠️
notify-service is currently degraded — SMS channel switched to backup provider. Expected recovery: 2026-03-18.

Data Layer

Three-tier storage strategy partitioned by access frequency and consistency requirements.

Service Layer Redis Cache MySQL Primary Elasticsearch MySQL Replica (read-only × 2) Offsite Backup (daily full) 94% hit rate primary writes full-text search Data Storage Architecture

Infrastructure

Deployed on private-cloud Kubernetes clusters spanning 3 availability zones for high availability.

2025-09 · v4.0
Completed K8s cluster migration. All services containerized, legacy VMs decommissioned.
2025-12 · v4.1
Istio service mesh deployed. mTLS encryption for all inter-service traffic. 100% distributed tracing coverage.
2026-02 · v4.2
HPA auto-scaling live. Peak traffic handling scales instances automatically up to 3× baseline.
2026-Q2 · v5.0 (planned)
Multi-cloud DR with AWS as hot standby. RTO target < 5 minutes.

Monitoring & Alerts

Observability stack built on Prometheus + Grafana. Alerts routed via PagerDuty with severity-based escalation.

🚫
notify-service P99 at 195ms — breaching SLA threshold of 150ms. Circuit breaker active. Root cause: upstream SMS provider network degradation.

Security & Compliance

Critical CVEs
0
↑ clear
Medium CVEs
3
in progress
mTLS Coverage
100%
↑ full
Audit Status
Pass
ISO 27001
💡
3 medium CVEs (incl. CVE-2025-1234) have remediation plans. Patch deployment scheduled by 2026-03-25. Next full security scan: 2026-04-01.