Giraffe Architecture

Components

• DB is Postgres on GCP.
• Large objects stored on Google Cloud Storage.
• Back-end (Django) and front-end (React) hosted on GAE Python Standard Environment.
• Workers running on a GCP Windows instance for Windows only workflows.
• Workers and back-end communicate via Pub Sub.
• Authentication handled by Firebase Auth.
• Payments handled by Stripe.

Notes

• Everything hosted within Google’s infrastructure, within a VPC and encrypted at rest
• Https is used for all traffic
• All services are in scope for SOC2 as per Google Cloud's guidelines