Panglot Platform

Introduction

Panglot is a cutting-edge cloud-native microservices platform that combines the best features from multiple architectural paradigms to create a robust, scalable, and maintainable distributed system.

Key Innovation

Panglot uniquely combines CORBA-style strict contracts, REST interoperability, gRPC performance, microservices autonomy, service mesh networking, and event-driven decoupling into a unified, production-ready architecture.

Core Features

🔒

Strict Contracts

Protocol Buffers and OpenAPI ensure type safety and backward compatibility across all service boundaries.

🌍

Universal REST API

External clients access services through standard REST endpoints with OpenAPI documentation.

⚡

High-Performance gRPC

Internal service-to-service communication uses HTTP/2-based gRPC for maximum efficiency.

🔄

Event-Driven Design

CloudEvents and Kafka enable asynchronous workflows and service decoupling.

🛡️

Service Mesh

Transparent mTLS, circuit breakers, retries, and load balancing at the network layer.

📊

Full Observability

OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging across all services.

Architecture Overview

The platform is organized into distinct layers, each serving a specific purpose:

graph TB
    subgraph Clients["🌐 External Clients"]
        WEB[Web Applications]
        MOBILE[Mobile Apps]
        PARTNER[Partner APIs]
    end

    subgraph Edge["🚪 Edge Layer"]
        GW[API Gateway
TLS, Auth, Rate Limiting]
        BFF[Backend For Frontend
REST to gRPC Translation]
    end

    subgraph Services["⚙️ Service Plane - gRPC"]
        ORDERS[Orders Service]
        PAYMENTS[Payments Service]
        INVENTORY[Inventory Service]
    end

    subgraph Mesh["🔗 Service Mesh"]
        MESH[mTLS, Circuit Breaker
Load Balancing, Observability]
    end

    subgraph Events["📨 Event Plane"]
        KAFKA[Event Bus - Kafka/NATS]
        REGISTRY[Schema Registry]
    end

    subgraph Data["💾 Data Layer"]
        DB1[(Orders DB)]
        DB2[(Payments DB)]
        DB3[(Inventory DB)]
    end

    Clients -->|HTTPS/REST| Edge
    Edge -->|gRPC| Services
    Services -.->|through| Mesh
    Services -->|CloudEvents| Events
    Services --- Data

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    style Services fill:#f3e5f5
    style Events fill:#fff3e0
    style Data fill:#e8f5e9

Layer Responsibilities

Edge Layer: Handles external traffic, authentication, rate limiting, and protocol translation
Service Plane: Business logic implemented as autonomous microservices communicating via gRPC
Service Mesh: Provides network-level resilience, security, and observability transparently
Event Plane: Enables asynchronous communication and event-driven workflows
Data Layer: Each service owns its database ensuring data autonomy and isolation

Platform Benefits

🎯 Developer Productivity

Code generation from contracts, standardized patterns, and comprehensive libraries accelerate development while maintaining quality.

🚀 Operational Excellence

Built-in observability, automatic retries, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation ensure system reliability in production.

📈 Scalability

Independent service scaling, efficient gRPC communication, and event-driven patterns support horizontal scaling to millions of requests.

🔐 Security by Default

mTLS between services, OIDC authentication, API gateway protection, and encrypted communication channels secure the entire platform.

Multi-Paradigm Support

The Panglot architecture is designed to support emerging computing paradigms beyond traditional cloud infrastructure:

⚛️ Quantum Computing

Expose quantum processing units through REST/gRPC, orchestrate quantum-classical hybrid workflows

💡 Photonic Computing

Integrate optical computing backends with event-driven triggers for photonic calculations

🧬 Genomic Processing

Support bioinformatics pipelines with long-running async workflows for DNA/RNA analysis

🔄 Hybrid Architectures

Unified orchestration across classical, quantum, photonic, and genomic services