Engineering Monographs & Blueprints

Reference architectures from production deployments.

Detailed systems engineering notes, failure-mode analyses, and reproducible configuration patterns maintained by our principal engineers in Tbilisi. Written for CTOs, staff architects, and infrastructure leads operating regulated workloads.

Distributed Cloud Updated Oct 2026 · 12 min read

Designing Deterministic Active-Active Kubernetes Clusters Across Regions

Why stretched etcd control planes fail over WAN links exceeding 15 ms, and how to architect federated independent clusters with BGP Anycast ingress, Cilium eBPF ClusterMesh, and regional-by-row Raft consensus without split-brain hazards.

  • BGP Anycast
  • Cilium ClusterMesh
  • Raft Quorum
  • Multi-Region Kubernetes
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Sovereign AI Updated Oct 2026 · 14 min read

Production Architecture for Sovereign On-Premise LLM Inference & Air-Gapped RAG

Complete capacity and security blueprint for self-hosted 70B–405B foundation models: Grouped-Query Attention KV-cache math, vLLM PagedAttention tuning, NVLink vs. RoCEv2 tensor parallelism, and document-level RBAC enforcement inside private vector stores.

  • vLLM & PagedAttention
  • FP8 Quantization
  • Air-Gapped RAG
  • GPU Cluster Sizing
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Financial Core Systems Updated Oct 2026 · 13 min read

Sub-Millisecond Double-Entry Financial Ledgers: Idempotency, Serializable Isolation & Audit Integrity

Eliminating balance drift, race conditions, and hot-account deadlocks in high-throughput settlement engines using immutable append-only postings, deterministic lock ordering, two-phase holds, and SHA-256 hash-chained audit journals.

  • Double-Entry Accounting
  • PostgreSQL Serializable
  • Idempotency Keys
  • Cryptographic Audit
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Zero-Trust Security Updated Oct 2026 · 12 min read

Zero-Trust Infrastructure Governance: Hardware-Backed mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE & Continuous SOC 2 / ISO 27001 Evidence

Replacing static secrets and perimeter VPNs with TPM-attested X.509 workload identities, L7 eBPF micro-segmentation, Cosign admission policies, and automated WORM compliance telemetry mapped directly to SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 controls.

  • SPIFFE / SPIRE
  • mTLS & eBPF
  • SLSA Supply Chain
  • SOC 2 & ISO 27001
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Curation & Methodology

How we publish and maintain technical guides.

1. Field-tested against live telemetry

Every blueprint published by Rocket Software Group originates from real architecture reviews, chaos-testing harnesses, and sovereign cloud deployments executed by our engineering teams. We never publish synthetic summaries or unverified configurations.

2. Paired with deterministic sizing tools

Architecture prose is only half of systems design. Each monograph connects directly to our client-side Engineering Calculators so your team can plug in exact token windows, GPU SKUs, voter counts, and regional fiber coordinates.

3. Quarterly revision & kernel/runtime updates

Infrastructure primitives evolve rapidly across Kubernetes releases, Linux eBPF subsystems, and LLM serving engines. Our practice leads audit and update published configurations quarterly, logging revision dates in every article header.