Local-first
Essential capability should remain as close to the system being controlled or observed as practical.
About Cloud Rescue
Capability despite dependency failure.
Cloud Rescue is a resilient systems architecture practice. We design physical and digital systems around the capability that must remain available — not around a particular product, platform, vendor, or cloud ecosystem.
Our Position
We are not anti-cloud. We are anti-unexamined dependency.
Cloud platforms, remote services, Internet connectivity, and commercial ecosystems can provide tremendous capability. Cloud Rescue uses them where they make sense.
But when a system performs an important physical or operational function, we ask a second question:
What happens when that dependency is unavailable?
The answer informs the architecture.
Technology-agnostic
We select components based on the requirement rather than forcing every problem into one ecosystem.
Failure-aware
Architecture includes the loss of power, communications, services, equipment, and other dependencies as design conditions.
Systems Lab
We build what we study.
Cloud Rescue maintains real-world testing environments for developing, exercising, and documenting resilient systems before lessons become reusable architecture patterns.