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OBSERVATORY ARCHITECTS

EST. 2026 · BERLIN / TORONTO / MEXICO CITY

PROJECT

An open-source observability system

PLATE 01

Site plan.

The system shown in plan view. Components labeled with tick-mark annotations. Scale 1:50 nominal.

Figure 01.A · Distributed footprint of an Observatory deployment. All four components are addressable as subcommands of a single binary.

PLATE 02

System axonometric.

Isometric projection through the data path. Annotations indicate dimensional context.

Figure 02.A · A request enters at the south elevation, traverses three stages, and exits as a column committed to disk.

PLATE 03

Materials schedule.

Components, specifications, finishes, sources. Read in construction-document format.

Code	Item	Specification	Finish	Supplier
M-01	Ingest service	OpenTelemetry / gRPC / HTTP	Apache 2.0	Open source
M-02	Columnar store	Append-only Parquet shards	Zstandard compression	Local disk / S3
M-03	Compactor	Tiered retention, per-tenant quota	Background daemon	Bundled binary
M-04	Query layer	SQL-flavored, histogram pushdown	Read-only	HTTP :4319
M-05	Web interface	Plain HTML, no client-side framework	Optional	HTTP :4320
M-06	Wire format	OpenTelemetry v1, frozen	Stable	Spec at /spec/wire-format

PLATE 04

Section through user.

The intended occupant of the system, sectioned at desk elevation. Annotations describe contact points between user and system.

Figure 04.A · A senior infrastructure engineer at her desk at 03:14 local time, with annotations indicating typical moments of interaction with the deployed system.