Identity and access
SSO, short lived credentials, per environment RBAC and break glass accounts that are logged and alerted on when used.
Nuviotech helps technology companies design, deploy and operate scalable infrastructure across cloud and bare metal.
We manage Kubernetes, Terraform, databases, private networking and dedicated infrastructure to improve performance, reliability and cost efficiency.
From architecture to production, we build infrastructure that supports real workloads and real growth.
Platforms we run in production
A Postgres primary, a stateless API and a nightly Spark job want different disks, different memory and different network. Placement is a decision we argue about, not a default.
No preferred vendor. We have moved Postgres onto RDS for the operational relief, and pulled storage heavy nodes off cloud when egress and NVMe pricing made it indefensible.
Cloud infrastructureMost incidents we are called into start below the app: an admin panel on a public IP, a static key from 2023, a flat VPC where every pod can reach the database. We work on that layer.
SSO, short lived credentials, per environment RBAC and break glass accounts that are logged and alerted on when used.
Vault or cloud KMS, HSM backed signing keys where it matters, and rotation that runs on a schedule instead of after an incident.
Private subnets, security groups and Kubernetes network policies, so a compromised pod cannot reach the database or the node hosts.
Cloudflare or provider scrubbing in front of public APIs and RPC endpoints, with WAF rules and per key rate limits at the gateway.
CIS aligned OS baselines, image scanning, admission policies, SSH behind a bastion or identity aware proxy, patching windows that are actually kept.
Audit logs, Falco or eBPF based runtime detection, alert routing that pages a human, and runbooks written before the first incident.
Offsite and immutable copies, restore drills with a measured recovery time, not a retention policy nobody has tested.
Anycast edge, load balancers, ingress, cluster and node pools, databases and object storage, metrics and logs. Every layer here is one we build and keep running.
Same engineering, harder constraints. A node that is catching up should not also be answering user traffic, so sync, serving and indexing get split early.
Nodes on isolated compute, with sync and serving roles separated so a resync never degrades live traffic.
Gateways, method level rate limiting, caching and isolated node pools per endpoint class.
Key handling, sentry topology, upgrade rehearsal on testnet and monitoring built around missed duties.
Continuous ingestion kept away from analytical queries, so a heavy report does not stall the indexer.
Kafka for ingestion, ClickHouse for analytics, PostgreSQL for state, sized against real storage growth.
NVMe with endurance headroom for compaction, large memory hosts and private networking between roles.
Regional node pools with routed failover, added when the latency or failure profile justifies the extra surface.
Client upgrades, fork preparation, disk growth, incident response and the on call rotation behind it.
Nothing wins on every axis. These are the conversations we have before an architecture is signed off.
| Choice | What you gain | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| Baremetal | Predictable IO and no noisy neighbours, which is what heavy databases and archive nodes actually need. | Provisioning takes days, not minutes, and capacity has to be planned rather than autoscaled. |
| Kubernetes | Good fit for stateless services, APIs and anything that scales sideways. | A platform of its own to run. We rarely move databases or validators onto it just for consistency. |
| Multi region | Survives losing a region and puts latency closer to users. | Replication traffic, egress and a second set of things that can drift out of sync. |
| Dedicated RPC | Control over rate limits, method filtering, cache behaviour and who your neighbours are. | You own node lifecycle: upgrades, resyncs, forks and disk growth. |
Teams whose product went from a few servers to a platform nobody fully owns. We take over the layer under the app.
Pipelines and analytical stores that grow faster than the budget. Storage tiers and query paths get separated before it hurts.
Companies that need segmentation, auditable access and recovery paths documented, not just claimed.
Developers shipping fast with nobody owning Kubernetes, IaC or the pager. We fill that seat.
Nodes, validators, RPC and indexing, where sync work is kept off the path that serves users.
Regulated workloads that need private networking, key handling and an honest recovery test.
Things we tend to argue for, and why.
Kubernetes is useful, but we do not put every blockchain workload on it. A validator with a single writer and a strict key handling story gains very little from an orchestrator, and inherits its failure modes.
Storage is usually the first thing to break on a blockchain data platform. Not CPU, not bandwidth. Compaction and random reads decide whether a node keeps up with the head of the chain.
Multi-cloud is not automatically more resilient. Two providers means two control planes, two IAM models and two ways to be wrong, for a failure mode that rarely happens.
The controls that make sense for a public API gateway are not the controls a validator needs. One is about abuse and rate limiting, the other about key custody and a very short list of people.
We design it, we deploy it, we migrate onto it, then we keep it running with your team. The same engineers stay on the account, which is why the designs stay operable.
Designs that are painful to operate get rejected early, because the same engineers carry the pager afterwards.
Cloud, baremetal or both. The workload decides, and we write down why.
Segmentation, access control and recovery are part of the architecture, not a hardening sprint at the end.
Blockchain nodes, validators and indexing are a genuine specialization, not a line on a slide.
Tools we have run long enough to know where each one gets annoying: ArgoCD drift, Terraform state, ClickHouse merges, Cilium upgrades.
We are not resellers. Nothing here pays us a commission, so the choice comes down to the workload.
We read the current setup: traffic shape, storage growth, who has access, what breaks at 3am, what it costs.
A target design with the trade-offs written next to each decision, so nobody inherits a choice without its reason.
Everything in code. If it was clicked once in a console, it gets rebuilt properly before it counts as done.
Cutovers rehearsed first, with a rollback that has actually been tested, not a paragraph in a runbook.
Monitoring, upgrades, capacity and incidents, with your team in the same channel as ours.
Multi region architectures
Cloud and baremetal
Segmented by default
Managed operations
Written decisions
Nodes, RPC endpoints, indexers, storage and networking. A plain explanation of the layers that sit under every onchain application.
Read Node ArchitecturePeer discovery, block validation, state storage and the operational reality of keeping a node healthy in production.
Read Node ArchitectureThe difference is not academic. It changes your storage bill, your sync time and the queries your product can answer.
ReadGuides, reference architectures, engineering notes, network documentation, comparisons and a glossary, maintained by our engineers.
End to end references on infrastructure, security and data.
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