About the CLOWD9 Platform

The CLOWD9 platform is the world’s first cloud native, end to end cloud native issuer processing platform, built using Golang and microservice architecture, equipped with capabilities of multi-region distributed processing for high availability.

The cloud itself provides a theoretically infinite pool of resources, which CLOWD9 is fully designed and equipped to make best use of.

Having built a cloud native infrastructure, enabling autoscaling of the platform - which unlike in the case of “cloud based” players who just host Virtual Machines in the cloud, means true instant scalability.

The microservice architecture allows for better functional division of services. This contributes to a more tailored scaling with the above mentioned autoscaling, meaning only parts of the system that are in need of scaling, will be scaled. For example, we will not be scaling our PIN and EMV services for the reason of a surge of virtual card issuance.

The microservice architecture guarantees functional stability; a microservice that has not been changed by a release, is guaranteed to functionally do what it has already been doing, thus reducing the testing effort necessary.

CLOWD9 has been built in Golang which further enhances resource usage optimization that autoscaling using the cloud’s elasticity provides. Golang allows the use of scratch images when deployed in a cloud native Kubernetes environment. This removes the need of an operating system or a runtime framework such as the Java runtime or the .NET framework, rendering most of the CVE security vulnerability database irrelevant to the CLOWD9 platform.

The lack of operating system and runtime environment results in images as small as 8 megabytes. These images can, can be deployed in seconds, helping speed up our deployment and the self-healing of the production service and platform.