Architecture

Tailslide’s architecture was built to facilitate two major uses: the feature flag ruleset data transmission and automated circuit breaking.

There are three key pieces of Tailslide’s architecture created by the team. These include:

1. Tower - a full-stack application that handles the CRUD functionality related to feature flag management
2. Tailslide SDKs - provides user microservices with flag state to ensure appropriate logic evaluation at runtime and emission of circuit-breaking data
3. Aerobat - a lightweight Node application responsible for all circuit-breaking logic

Tailslide also utilizes the following open-source software: NATs JetStream, PostgreSQL, and Redis Timeseries Database.