Zulu Platform Architecture

Zulu is not a single application but a cohesive system of services, queues, caches, and storage engines that together deliver resilience and throughput under variable load.

| Component | Scaling Strategy | Failure Handling | |--------------------|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------| | Gateway | Horizontal (stateless) | LB distributes traffic; health checks replace pods. | | Event Bus | Increase partitions & brokers | Replication factor ≥3; leader re‑election. | | Stream Processors | Add tasks/parallelism | Checkpointed offsets restart from last commit. | | Stateful Service | Shard by key (e.g., user_id) | Redo log + standby replicas. | | Projection Store | Read replicas + index tuning | Cluster auto‑healing (Elastic/ClickHouse). | zulu platform architecture

Zulu Platform Architecture for | Salesforce Trailblazer Community Zulu is not a single application but a