About Our Platform

The CLOWD9 platform is the world’s first 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.

Our cloud native infrastructure, enables true autoscaling of the platform - which unlike typical “cloud based/hosted” issuer processing platforms who may run Virtual Machines in the cloud, means that CLOWD9 has instant performance scaling and capacity elasticity.

The CLOWD9 microservice architecture allows for better functional division of services. This contributes to focussed scaling, meaning only parts of the system that are in need of scaling, will be addressed. For example, we would not scale our PIN and EMV services in the event 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 regression testing effort necessary and minimising cross functional impacts.

CLOWD9 has been built in Golang which is particularly suited to handling concurrent tasks, making it the best choice for performance-sensitive applications such as real time payments management.

From a security perspective, Golang allows the use of scratch images when deployed in our 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 security risks identified on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) 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.