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Middleware & Inter-App
4 workloadsResilient connective tissue, fallback buffers, API proxies, and event routers operating between systems.
Serverless Fallback & Resiliency Buffer
A resilient middleware buffer placed in front of serverless functions. Catches traffic spikes or cold-start timeouts by queuing requests into a persistent queue, caching session state, and dispatching to a failover VM worker pool.
AI Gateway, Guardrails & Caching Proxy
An enterprise middleware proxy positioned between internal applications and external LLM vendors. Enforces prompt security guardrails (WAF), performs semantic prompt caching, rate-limits tenant requests, and manages API keys securely.
Enterprise API Gateway & Auth Middleware
A standalone security & integration middleware layer placed in front of legacy or internal microservices to handle OAuth token validation, IP rate-limiting, TLS termination, and traffic shaping.
Cross-Cloud Event Router & Message Broker
A cross-cloud middleware layer connecting disparate applications across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments, converting event schemas and guaranteeing asynchronous delivery.
AI & Machine Learning
5 workloadsRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, LLMs, and multimodal vision/speech pipelines.
RAG AI Application
A generative AI application using a Foundational Model connected to a Vector Database to search proprietary documents and return grounded answers.
ML Training & Hosting
A pipeline for training machine-learning models on GPU clusters and serving them through a managed inference endpoint.
RAG AI Knowledge Base
A retrieval-augmented generation pipeline for AI chat and search — document storage, a metadata store, an API layer, embeddings, orchestration, and a managed inference endpoint.
Event-Driven Image Processing
An event-driven architecture that processes uploaded images (e.g., ID verification, insurance claims) by triggering serverless functions to run AI vision models and store the extracted metadata.
Voice AI Assistant
A speech-to-speech AI pipeline — incoming audio is transcribed, interpreted by a conversational LLM, and answered with a synthesized voice reply. Showcases how AI modality (Audio vs. Chat) and capability tier (Frontier vs. Standard) drive different AI product rows within one architecture.
Web & Microservices
6 workloadsScalable web applications, container fleets, serverless backends, and multi-tenant platforms.
Serverless Web Application
A scalable, low-maintenance backend without provisioning servers. Perfect for event-driven web and mobile backends.
Classic 3-Tier Web Architecture
The foundational blueprint for monolithic or traditionally scaled web applications using VMs and relational databases. The deliberate minimal baseline.
E-Commerce Microservices Stack
A resilient, decoupled architecture designed for high availability, fast product lookups, and fault tolerance.
Kubernetes App Platform
A general-purpose container platform for running microservices and stateful applications on managed Kubernetes.
SaaS on Managed Platform
A multi-tenant SaaS product running on a managed application platform (PaaS) with a relational backend.
Event-Driven API Backend
An agile, fully serverless microservices backend combining managed API gateways, message queues, and rapid cache lookups.
Data Analytics & HPC
5 workloadsReal-time telemetry streaming, columnar data warehouses, and high-performance compute clusters.
Real-time Streaming Analytics
A highly demanded architecture for processing IoT telemetry, clickstreams, or financial data in real time.
HPC / Scientific Computing
A high-performance computing cluster for simulations, modeling, and batch scientific workloads.
Data Warehouse & BI
A cloud data warehouse feeding business-intelligence dashboards, fed by an ETL pipeline.
Content & Media Platform
A video/media platform that transcodes uploads and delivers content globally through a CDN.
Smart Manufacturing (IIoT)
An Industrial IoT (IIoT) platform for real-time sensor analytics — edge collection, stream ingestion, live metrics storage, historical analytics, and predictive maintenance.
Networking & Security
4 workloadsZero-trust edge gateways, hybrid cloud backbones, warm-standby disaster recovery, and compliance.
Disaster Recovery (Warm Standby)
A cross-region warm-standby environment that can take over if the primary region fails.
Compliance-Ready Web Application
A 3-tier web app hardened with managed security services for teams in regulated industries handling sensitive data. Security add-ons scale with the Security slider.
Hybrid Cloud Network Backbone
A robust networking architecture connecting on-premises data centers to cloud resources via dedicated connections and secure gateways.
Zero-Trust Enterprise Edge
A secure, global entry point that strictly authenticates all users and devices, mitigating bots and edge threats before traffic hits the application.