Technical Specifications
Open Data Engineering at Scale
Civic Open Data Portal is built on a cloud-native architecture optimized for high-throughput data publishing, low-latency API delivery, and elastic scaling for public access spikes.
99.9%
Uptime SLA
5,000+
Concurrent Users
<200ms
API Response
3
Platform Modules
Architecture Overview
Independently deployable services cover the full open data lifecycle from ingestion through publication and community engagement.
Platform Modules
Core Services
Independently deployable microservices with dedicated data stores and APIs.
Total Modules
3
Protocol
REST / gRPC
Bus
Async Events
Container
Kubernetes
Database
PostgreSQL 16
Specifications
Technical Details
Browse specifications by category. All values reflect current production configuration.
Hosting
Canadian-owned SOC 2 Type II certified data centres (Ontario + Quebec)
Compute
Kubernetes with horizontal pod autoscaling; auto-scales during public data-release spikes
CDN
Canadian edge nodes for dataset downloads; sub-50ms static asset delivery
Container Runtime
Docker containers orchestrated via Kubernetes with rolling deployments
Uptime
99.9% Availability SLA
Enterprise-grade availability with redundancy across Canadian data centres.
99.953%
30-Day Avg
1
Incidents
3× DC
Redundancy
< 15min
Recovery
30-Day Uptime History
All Systems Operational
Deployment
Flexible Deployment Options
Source code licence with flexible deployment options.
On-Premises — Full deployment on municipal infrastructure.
Canadian Cloud — Managed deployment on Canadian IaaS.
Hybrid — Core services on-prem with cloud analytics.