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Platform Services

Platform services provide foundational infrastructure, monitoring, and operational capabilities that support all other services.

Services

Currently in planning phase - no active services deployed

Planned Capabilities

Service Discovery

• Purpose: Dynamic service registration and discovery
• Planned Functions:
  • Service health monitoring
  • Load balancing and routing
  • Service mesh coordination
  • Configuration management

Logging & Monitoring

• Purpose: Observability and operational insights
• Planned Functions:
  • Centralized logging aggregation
  • Metrics collection and analysis
  • Distributed tracing
  • Performance monitoring and alerting

Configuration Management

• Purpose: Centralized configuration and secrets management
• Planned Functions:
  • Environment-specific configurations
  • Secrets encryption and rotation
  • Dynamic configuration updates
  • Configuration versioning and rollback

Authentication & Authorization

• Purpose: Security and access control
• Planned Functions:
  • User authentication and session management
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • API security and token management
  • Audit logging and compliance

Backup & Recovery

• Purpose: Data protection and disaster recovery
• Planned Functions:
  • Automated backup scheduling
  • Point-in-time recovery
  • Cross-region replication
  • Disaster recovery orchestration

Architecture

Platform services provide the operational foundation that enables reliable, secure, and observable operation of the entire trading platform. They implement cross-cutting concerns and best practices for production deployments.