BLACKMESA.SYSTEMS
RESEARCH • OPERATIONS • SAFETY • λ
Capabilities
Cloud Pipelines Incidents Storage CI/CD Telemetry
Available
Private Cloud & Orchestration

VMs, containers, and SDN with policy-hardened defaults. Kubernetes, Nomad, or bare-metal fleets with admission control, network policies, and image signing.

  • Multi-AZ clusters, service mesh (mTLS), zero-trust access
  • GitOps + drift detection; blue/green & canary
  • Secrets + KMS; OPA/Gatekeeper policy packs
Available
Secure Data Pipelines

Ingest, transform, and warehouse at edge and core with signed artifacts, lineage, and reproducibility.

  • Schema contracts, CDC, and late-arriving handling
  • Airflow/Dagster orchestration; dbt transformations
  • Data quality SLOs + anomaly alerts
Pilot
Incident Engineering

Blue-green recovery, chaos drills, and forensic observability to keep RTO/RPO real.

  • SEV triage & comms playbooks; on-call rotations
  • Failover runbooks; load shed & brownout controls
  • Post-incident review with timeline & owners
Lab
Resilient Storage

Erasure-coded object & block (S3/CSI), air-gap export, offline verify, and immutable snapshots.

  • Cross-region replication + bucket-level SLOs
  • WORM/lock policies and legal hold
  • Tiering & lifecycle management
Available
Secure CI/CD

Ephemeral runners, SBOM enforcement, and supply-chain policy gates from commit to release.

  • Sigstore/COSIGN signing; provenance attestations (SLSA)
  • Dependency scanning + policy exceptions workflow
  • Env promotion with release freeze windows
Available
Telemetry Mesh

eBPF signals, traces, and red/green switchover during brownouts. Correlate logs/metrics/traces across regions.

  • OpenTelemetry pipelines; tail-based sampling
  • Burn-rate SLOs with multi-window detectors
  • Forensic capture (pcap/heap/pprof) on trigger
Detailed specs
Private Cloud & Orchestration availability • hardened defaults • GitOps
What you get
  • HA control plane with auto-heal
  • Service mesh (mTLS), netpol, admission policy
  • GitOps, drift detection, policy packs
Stack
  • Kubernetes/Nomad, CNI (Cilium), OPA/Gatekeeper
  • ArgoCD/Flux, Harbor/Quay, Sigstore/COSIGN
  • Load balancers (L4/L7), Ingress/Gateway API
Example projects
  • CLOUD-201 — Multi-AZ K8s with mTLS mesh
  • CLOUD-312 — GitOps + policy baselines
  • EDGE-108 — Edge cluster w/ secure overlay
Secure Data Pipelines lineage • reproducibility • quality
What you get
  • Ingest → transform → warehouse with lineage
  • Signed artifacts & deterministic builds
  • DQ checks, schema registry, and SLAs
Stack
  • Kafka/Redpanda, Debezium/CDC, Airflow/Dagster
  • dbt, DuckDB/Snowflake/BigQuery (per-env)
  • Great Expectations / data-diff
Example projects
  • DATA-204 — CDC → lakehouse ingestion
  • DATA-311 — dbt refactor + tests
  • DQ-101 — Quality SLOs + alerting
Incident Engineering runbooks • drills • forensic telemetry
What you get
  • SEV ladder, comms, and paging matrices
  • Failover paths, load shed, brownout controls
  • PIR with timelines & action owners
Drills
  • Region failover (quarterly)
  • DB restore & PITR validation
  • Chaos fault injection (opt-in)
Example projects
  • OPS-301 — Region failover drill
  • OPS-221 — SEV triage overhaul
  • OPS-412 — Brownout switches
Resilient Storage erasure coding • immutability • lifecycle
What you get
  • S3/CSI layers with per-bucket SLOs
  • Object lock (WORM) & legal hold
  • Air-gap export + offline verify
Stack
  • Ceph/MinIO/NetApp (per-env)
  • CSI drivers, snapshot controllers
  • Lifecycle + tiering policies
Example projects
  • STO-219 — Object lock deployment
  • STO-144 — Cross-region replication
  • STO-288 — Offline integrity audits
Secure CI/CD SLSA • SBOM • policy gates
What you get
  • Ephemeral runners & isolated build nets
  • SBOM + provenance, policy attestation
  • Promotion gates, approvals, freeze windows
Stack
  • GitHub/GitLab/Buildkite runners
  • Sigstore/COSIGN, in-toto attestations
  • Harbor/Quay, OPA policy bundles
Example projects
  • CI-170 — COSIGN signing pipeline
  • CI-244 — Monorepo cache & split builds
  • REL-102 — Promotion gates & freezes
Telemetry Mesh otlp • burn-rate SLOs • forensics
What you get
  • Unified logs/metrics/traces (OTLP)
  • Multi-window burn-rate SLOs
  • Forensic capture on rules
Stack
  • OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Victoria, Tempo/Jaeger
  • Loki/Elastic for logs, Alertmanager
  • Grafana dashboards + SLO widgets
Example projects
  • OBS-205 — OTel pipeline w/ sampling
  • SLO-133 — Burn-rate SLO rollout
  • FOREN-071 — Triggered pcap/pprof
Service tiers
Foundation

Best-practice baseline, docs, and handover. Target: P90 reliability uplift.

Hardened

Policy-enforced, signed supply chain, and SLOs. Target: P95 uplift.

Enterprise

Multi-region HA, disaster recovery, & compliance add-ons. Target: P99 uplift.

Engagement flow
01 • Discover

Inventory, objectives, and constraints.

02 • Design

Blueprint + threat model + SLOs.

03 • Pilot

Scope slice, validate assumptions.

04 • Rollout

Automate, document, handover.

05 • Operate

Reviews, drills, & continuous hardening.

Ready to scope a capability?

Tell us your objectives and environment—Sector, regions, security requirements—and we’ll draft a plan.

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