Infrastructure & Platforms
Infrastructure and platform architecture form the foundation of system resilience, performance, and availability. Quokka Advisory designs infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, with a focus on platforms that support real workloads and remain stable as conditions change.
What this domain covers
Infrastructure and platform decisions determine how systems perform, fail, and recover. Capacity, availability, and user experience are constrained by the physical and virtual layers on which they depend.
Quokka Advisory designs infrastructure across on-premises, hosted, and hybrid environments. The focus is on platforms designed to support real workloads and remain stable as conditions change.
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Where appropriate, platforms may be implemented using service-based or cloud-native patterns. These choices are made based on operational requirements, failure tolerance, and long-term maintainability.
We stay involved as designs are implemented to ensure architectural intent survives delivery and integration with existing environments.
Why it matters
Infrastructure issues rarely appear as isolated technical faults. They surface as degraded performance, unstable sessions, or unplanned downtime during critical operations.
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When platform decisions are made without a clear understanding of workloads, access patterns, and failure boundaries, risk accumulates quietly. This domain exists to prevent that.
What this looks like in practice
Work in this domain typically includes:
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Physical infrastructure design covering racks, power, cooling, and cabling
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Platform architecture for virtualisation, session delivery, and workload placement
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Resilience planning across failure and maintenance boundaries
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Performance modelling based on real usage patterns
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Integration with existing environments to minimise disruption
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Ongoing validation that platforms remain stable once live
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The emphasis is on designs that function under operational conditions.
How this connects to other domains
Infrastructure underpins every other architectural layer. Decisions made here directly affect network segmentation, identity enforcement, operational awareness, and the effectiveness of automation.
For that reason, this domain is always considered as part of a broader system.