Basics
This is our current primary cloud provider for the Curai Health application.
What is GCP?
Our databases run this particular DBMS.
What is Postgres / PostgreSQL?
What is Kubernetes / Google Kubernetes Engine / GKE?
Our domain names for curai.com and curaihealth.com are registered with this service.
What is Google Domains?
Double answer: Our Curai Health application stack is hosted under this organization name under this version control provider.
What is `firstopinion` and GitHub?
This is the cloud provider we will be moving to in the next few months for both ML and product engineering workloads.
What is AWS?
For unstructured key/value accesses, and for slightly more complex ephemeral data, we use Google Cloud Memorystore (and will soon use AWS Elasticache), which is powered by this technology.
What is Redis?
When we deploy code, we accomplish this pseudo-atomically by using this tool, which helps template and apply Kubernetes manifests.
What is helm?
We use this company's nameservers to communicate DNS changes to the world.
What is Google / Google Cloud DNS?
Our CI and CD pipelines run on this container-based service. Ali loves watching spinners and logs fly by as this service executes runs.
What is Google Cloud Build?
We also have native applications for iOS and Android. These applications are powered by this open-source framework from Facebook that makes writing native apps easy.
What is React Native?
What is S3?
Some of our containerized services (including the curai.com website) are deployed using this serverless tool.
What is Google Cloud Run?
Our SSL certificates are issued by this authority.
What is Let's Encrypt?
This Microsoft-provided service allows us to ship code to our native applications without a formal app release.
What is CodePush?
This company's logo is a big blue whale, and its core open source offering (containers) are what our entire application stack runs on.
What is Docker?
When documents and ID verification photos are uploaded, they go to this cloud storage solution.
What is Google Cloud Storage / GCS?
When code hits master on our server, javascript, and design system repos, this tastefully named bot will wake up and perform some updates against our helm repo, thus triggering CD to dev.
What is bumpahashabot?
Our internal networking across all "cloud" services forms this "virtual" concept.
What is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
This helm chart automagically renews SSL certificates when they are close to expiring.
What is cert-manager?
This is the original German cloud provider on which First Opinion was hosted.
What is Hetzner?
When we build containers, they get uploaded to this service.
What is Google Container Registry (GCR)?
The following public helm chart is used to guarantee sticky sessions for connections to our chatserver; funnily, it is also the reason we cannot upgrade to helm3.
What is nginx-ingress-controller?
In Kubernetes, to talk to another internal container without leaving the cluster, you address the request by this.
What is the service's name?
This helm chart is used to orchestrate workflows, like dumping our database into BigQuery, running dbt, etc.
What is argo?