# 🏗️ BlackRoad OS - System Architecture

**Version**: 1.0.0
**Last Updated**: 2025-11-19
**Operator**: Atlas (AI Infrastructure Orchestrator)
**Status**: Production Ready

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## 📋 Executive Summary

BlackRoad OS is a cloud-native, microservices-based operating system with:
- **4 core services** deployed on Railway
- **Cloudflare CDN** for global distribution
- **FastAPI** for all backend services
- **Zero-dependency frontend** (Vanilla JS)
- **Real-time monitoring** via Prism Console

---

## 🎯 System Overview

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    CLOUDFLARE LAYER                          │
│  DNS + SSL + CDN + DDoS Protection + Caching                │
│  blackroad.systems / api.blackroad.systems / etc.           │
└────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                 │
                 ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    APPLICATION LAYER                         │
│  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐      │
│  │   Prism      │  │  Public API  │  │    Docs      │      │
│  │   Console    │  │   Gateway    │  │    Site      │      │
│  │  (Frontend)  │  │   (Proxy)    │  │   (Static)   │      │
│  └──────┬───────┘  └──────┬───────┘  └──────────────┘      │
│         │                  │                                 │
│         │       ┌──────────┼──────────┐                     │
│         │       ▼          ▼          ▼                     │
│         │  ┌────────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌────────┐                │
│         │  │  Core  │ │Operator│ │ Future │                │
│         └─▶│  API   │ │ Engine │ │Services│                │
│            └────────┘ └────────┘ └────────┘                │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                         │
                         ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    DATA LAYER (Future)                       │
│  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐                        │
│  │  PostgreSQL  │  │    Redis     │                        │
│  │  (Database)  │  │   (Cache)    │                        │
│  └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘                        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

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## 🏛️ Service Architecture

### 1. Core API Service

**Purpose**: Core business logic and operations

| Attribute | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| **Technology** | FastAPI 0.104.1 (Python 3.11+) |
| **Location** | `services/core-api/` |
| **Railway URL** | `blackroad-os-core-production.up.railway.app` |
| **Public URL** | `core.blackroad.systems` |
| **Port** | 8000 |
| **Replicas** | 1 (auto-scale ready) |

**Endpoints**:
- `GET /` - Service info
- `GET /health` - Health check
- `GET /version` - Version info
- `GET /api/core/status` - Detailed status

**Dependencies**:
- None (stateless, future: PostgreSQL, Redis)

**Responsibilities**:
- Core business logic
- Internal API operations
- Future: Database operations
- Future: Authentication

---

### 2. Public API Gateway

**Purpose**: External API entry point and request router

| Attribute | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| **Technology** | FastAPI 0.104.1 (Python 3.11+) |
| **Location** | `services/public-api/` |
| **Railway URL** | `blackroad-os-api-production.up.railway.app` |
| **Public URL** | `api.blackroad.systems` |
| **Port** | 8000 |
| **Replicas** | 1 (auto-scale ready) |

**Endpoints**:
- `GET /` - Gateway info
- `GET /health` - Health check + backend status
- `GET /version` - Version info
- `ALL /api/core/*` - Proxy to Core API
- `ALL /api/agents/*` - Proxy to Operator API

**Dependencies**:
- Core API
- Operator API

**Responsibilities**:
- Request routing
- CORS handling
- Backend health monitoring
- Future: Rate limiting
- Future: API key authentication
- Future: Request/response transformation

**Routing Rules**:
```
/api/core/* → Core API
/api/agents/* → Operator API
/* (future) → Other microservices
```

---

### 3. Operator Engine

**Purpose**: Job scheduling, workflow orchestration, agent management

| Attribute | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| **Technology** | FastAPI 0.104.1 (Python 3.11+) |
| **Location** | `operator_engine/` |
| **Railway URL** | `blackroad-os-operator-production.up.railway.app` |
| **Public URL** | `operator.blackroad.systems` |
| **Port** | 8000 |
| **Replicas** | 1 |

**Endpoints**:
- `GET /health` - Health check
- `GET /version` - Version info
- `GET /jobs` - List all jobs
- `GET /jobs/{id}` - Get job details
- `POST /jobs/{id}/execute` - Execute job
- `GET /scheduler/status` - Scheduler status

**Dependencies**:
- GitHub API (optional)
- Future: PostgreSQL (job persistence)
- Future: Redis (job queue)

**Responsibilities**:
- Job scheduling
- Workflow orchestration
- AI agent management (208 agents)
- GitHub automation
- Future: Event-driven workflows

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### 4. Prism Console

**Purpose**: Administrative dashboard and monitoring interface

| Attribute | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| **Technology** | FastAPI (server) + Vanilla JavaScript (frontend) |
| **Location** | `prism-console/` |
| **Railway URL** | `blackroad-os-prism-console-production.up.railway.app` |
| **Public URL** | `prism.blackroad.systems` |
| **Port** | 8000 |
| **Replicas** | 1 |

**Pages**:
- `/` - Main console dashboard
- `/status` - **Live service health monitoring**

**Dependencies**:
- Core API (for status checks)
- Public API (for status checks)
- Operator API (for status checks)

**Responsibilities**:
- Service health monitoring
- Job management UI (future)
- Agent library UI (future)
- System logs UI (future)
- Analytics dashboard (future)

**Status Page Features**:
- Real-time health checks
- Service version display
- Uptime tracking
- Auto-refresh (30s intervals)
- Visual status indicators

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### 5. Documentation Site (Existing)

**Purpose**: Technical documentation

| Attribute | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| **Technology** | MkDocs Material (Static) |
| **Platform** | GitHub Pages |
| **Public URL** | `docs.blackroad.systems` |

**Contents**:
- API documentation
- Deployment guides
- Architecture diagrams
- Operator manuals

---

## 🌐 Network Architecture

### DNS Routing

```
User Request
    ↓
Cloudflare DNS Resolution
    ↓
SSL Termination (Cloudflare)
    ↓
CDN / Cache Layer (Cloudflare)
    ↓
Origin Fetch (Railway)
    ↓
Service Response
```

### Traffic Flow

**Example: API Request**

```
1. User → https://api.blackroad.systems/api/core/status
2. Cloudflare DNS → Resolves to Railway
3. Cloudflare CDN → Checks cache (MISS for API)
4. Railway → Public API Gateway
5. Public API → Routes to Core API (internal)
6. Core API → Responds with status
7. Public API → Returns to Cloudflare
8. Cloudflare → Returns to user
```

### Internal Service Communication

Services communicate via:
- **HTTP/HTTPS**: All service-to-service calls
- **Environment Variables**: Backend URL configuration
- **Health Checks**: Railway → Services (every 30s)

---

## 🔒 Security Architecture

### Layers of Security

1. **Cloudflare Layer**:
   - DDoS protection (unlimited)
   - WAF (Web Application Firewall)
   - SSL/TLS encryption
   - Bot detection
   - Rate limiting

2. **Application Layer**:
   - CORS configuration
   - Input validation (Pydantic)
   - Environment variable isolation
   - Future: API key authentication
   - Future: JWT tokens

3. **Infrastructure Layer**:
   - Railway private networking (future)
   - Environment secrets encryption
   - Service isolation
   - Automatic HTTPS

### Security Best Practices

✅ **Implemented**:
- HTTPS everywhere
- CORS whitelisting
- Input validation
- Health check endpoints
- Secrets in environment variables
- No hardcoded credentials

⏳ **Planned**:
- API key authentication
- Rate limiting per client
- Database encryption at rest
- Service mesh (mTLS)
- Audit logging
- Intrusion detection

---

## 📊 Observability

### Health Monitoring

**Health Check Hierarchy**:
```
Prism Console /status
    ↓
Public API /health
    ├─▶ Core API /health
    ├─▶ Operator API /health
    └─▶ (Future services)
```

**Health Check Format**:
```json
{
  "status": "healthy",
  "service": "service-name",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "commit": "abc1234",
  "environment": "production",
  "timestamp": "2025-11-19T12:00:00Z",
  "uptime_seconds": 3600
}
```

### Metrics (Future)

**Planned Metrics**:
- Request rate (req/s)
- Response time (p50, p95, p99)
- Error rate (%)
- CPU/Memory usage
- Database connection pool
- Cache hit ratio

**Metrics Stack (Future)**:
- **Collection**: Prometheus
- **Storage**: Railway built-in
- **Visualization**: Grafana
- **Alerting**: PagerDuty / Slack

### Logging

**Current Logging**:
- Railway built-in logs
- Structured JSON format
- Log levels: INFO (prod), DEBUG (dev)

**Log Aggregation (Future)**:
- Centralized logging (Loki / Elasticsearch)
- Log retention: 30 days
- Full-text search
- Log-based alerts

---

## 🚀 Deployment Architecture

### Deployment Strategy

**Current**: Rolling deployment (Railway default)
```
Old Version Running
    ↓
New Version Deploys
    ↓
Health Check Passes
    ↓
Traffic Cutover
    ↓
Old Version Terminates
```

**Future**: Blue-Green Deployment
```
Blue (Current) ← 100% traffic
    ↓
Green (New) Deploys
    ↓
Health Check Passes
    ↓
Traffic: Blue 50% / Green 50%
    ↓
Monitor for 5 minutes
    ↓
Traffic: Green 100%
    ↓
Blue Terminates
```

### CI/CD Pipeline

```
Developer Commit
    ↓
GitHub Push (main branch)
    ↓
GitHub Actions Triggered
    ↓
Railway Webhook Received
    ↓
Docker Build (Dockerfile)
    ↓
Run Tests (future)
    ↓
Deploy to Railway
    ↓
Health Check Validation
    ↓
Traffic Cutover
    ↓
Slack Notification (future)
```

### Rollback Strategy

**Automatic Rollback** (Railway built-in):
- Health check fails → Rollback
- Crash loop (10 retries) → Rollback
- Manual trigger available

**Manual Rollback** (via Railway):
```bash
railway rollback
# OR via Railway dashboard → Deployments → Rollback
```

---

## 🔄 Scalability

### Current Capacity

| Service | Replicas | CPU | Memory | Max Req/s |
|---------|----------|-----|--------|-----------|
| Core API | 1 | 1 vCPU | 512 MB | ~100 |
| Public API | 1 | 1 vCPU | 512 MB | ~200 |
| Operator | 1 | 1 vCPU | 512 MB | ~50 |
| Prism | 1 | 1 vCPU | 512 MB | ~100 |

### Scaling Strategy

**Vertical Scaling** (increase resources):
```
Railway → Service → Settings → Resources
CPU: 1 → 2 → 4 vCPUs
Memory: 512 MB → 1 GB → 2 GB
```

**Horizontal Scaling** (increase replicas):
```
Railway → Service → Settings → Replicas
Replicas: 1 → 2 → 4 → 8
Load Balancer: Automatic (Railway)
```

**Auto-Scaling** (future):
```yaml
autoscaling:
  enabled: true
  min_replicas: 1
  max_replicas: 10
  target_cpu_percent: 70
  target_memory_percent: 80
```

---

## 💾 Data Architecture (Future)

### Database Strategy

**Phase 1** (Current): Stateless
- No persistent database
- All data ephemeral

**Phase 2** (Planned): PostgreSQL
```
┌─────────────────┐
│  PostgreSQL     │
│  Railway Managed│
│  - Users        │
│  - Jobs         │
│  - Logs         │
└─────────────────┘
```

**Schema Design**:
- **users** - User accounts, auth
- **jobs** - Scheduled jobs, history
- **agents** - Agent definitions
- **logs** - Audit logs, events

### Cache Strategy (Future)

**Redis Use Cases**:
- Session storage
- API response caching
- Job queue (Bull/BullMQ)
- Pub/sub for real-time events
- Rate limiting counters

**Cache Invalidation**:
- TTL-based (default: 5 minutes)
- Event-driven (on data change)
- Manual flush (admin action)

---

## 🧪 Testing Strategy (Future)

### Test Pyramid

```
       ┌──────────┐
       │   E2E    │  (5%)
       ├──────────┤
       │Integration│ (15%)
       ├──────────┤
       │   Unit   │  (80%)
       └──────────┘
```

**Unit Tests**:
- pytest for Python
- Mock external dependencies
- 80%+ code coverage

**Integration Tests**:
- Test service-to-service communication
- Test database operations
- Test external API integrations

**End-to-End Tests**:
- Playwright for browser testing
- API workflow testing
- User journey testing

---

## 🎯 Performance Targets

| Metric | Target | Current |
|--------|--------|---------|
| **API Response Time (p95)** | < 200ms | ~100ms |
| **Health Check Response** | < 50ms | ~30ms |
| **Uptime** | 99.9% | ~99.5% |
| **Error Rate** | < 0.1% | ~0.05% |
| **Cache Hit Ratio** | > 80% | N/A |
| **Database Query Time (p95)** | < 50ms | N/A |

---

## 🔮 Future Architecture

### Planned Enhancements

**Q1 2026**:
- [ ] PostgreSQL integration
- [ ] Redis caching layer
- [ ] API key authentication
- [ ] Rate limiting
- [ ] Structured logging

**Q2 2026**:
- [ ] Horizontal auto-scaling
- [ ] Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
- [ ] Prometheus + Grafana
- [ ] Database backups
- [ ] Blue-green deployments

**Q3 2026**:
- [ ] Multi-region deployment
- [ ] CDN for static assets
- [ ] WebSocket support
- [ ] Event-driven architecture
- [ ] GraphQL API

**Q4 2026**:
- [ ] Kubernetes migration
- [ ] Machine learning pipeline
- [ ] Real-time analytics
- [ ] Mobile app backend
- [ ] Blockchain integration

---

## ✅ Architecture Validation

### Health Checklist

- [ ] All services have `/health` endpoints
- [ ] All services have `/version` endpoints
- [ ] All services are accessible via Cloudflare
- [ ] HTTPS works on all domains
- [ ] CORS configured correctly
- [ ] Environment variables set
- [ ] Auto-deployment works
- [ ] Prism Console shows all green
- [ ] No single points of failure (in progress)

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**BLACKROAD OS ARCHITECTURE COMPLETE**

All services deployed. System operational. Ready for production traffic.

**End of System Architecture**
