# Technical Stack

In technology, a stack is a metaphor: a way of visualizing a collection of software systems used together to get work done.

# 3rd Party Software

Elasticsearch: Acts as the search engine, providing powerful indexing and search functionality.
MySQL / Microsoft SQL Server: Your relational database management system, used for structured data storage. We are agnostic.
Keycloak: Manages authentication and authorization, handling user login, permissions, etc.
Kong Gateway: An API gateway to manage traffic routing, authentication, rate limiting, etc., to different services.
GraphicsMagick: A powerful tool for image manipulation, used for image processing, including watermarking and pyramid tiff (tiled zoom) creation.
ExifTool: Extracts and manages metadata (like EXIF data) from images, used by GraphicsMagick for analysis or transformation.
Vips: A powerful tool for image manipulation, used for image processing, including watermarking and pyramid tiff (tiled zoom) creation.
SSH is used for secure communication between services, like accessing remote servers.
RSYNC synchronizes digital assets between servers, and works securely over SSH.

fully automated ingest and processing framework that integrates with your CMS and DAMS, ensuring data integrity, and efficient publication.

CIIM: The beating heart of our suite, a fully automated ingest and processing framework that integrates with your CMS and DAMS, ensuring data integrity, cross linking, augmentation, validation, and efficient publication.
CIIM Management is the administrative interface for CIIM, its data and API.
Rosetta: Our public facing API Gateway that amongst many other things acts as a facade to Elasticsearch.
Proteus: A data transformation language built on top of jsonpath.
Harvey: Our heartbeat/uptime monitoring tool provides early alerts for potential issues in CIIM extraction and processing.
Cantaloupe is an image server that supports deep zoom and the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), enabling efficient serving, transformation, and interoperability of large images.

CIIM will happily run on both Ubuntu or Windows, whether on-premises or in the cloud.