Axiom Refract for Platform Teams
Govern the structural health of every service your platform supports
The Challenge
You build and maintain the shared infrastructure that all product teams depend on. Your platform's stability is measured by the reliability of the services built on top of it — services you did not write, do not own, and may not fully understand architecturally.
When a product team builds a service with tight coupling to your platform internals, you discover it during an incident, not during a review. When a team creates a circular dependency between their service and a shared library, the coupling becomes visible only when the shared library needs to change.
You need visibility into the architectural health of every service that depends on your platform — without requiring each team to self-report.
How Axiom Refract Helps
Cross-Service Visibility
See how every product team's service depends on your platform components. Identify coupling, SPOFs, and architectural violations across the entire service mesh.
Platform Boundary Enforcement
Track which services access platform internals versus public APIs. Detect boundary violations automatically through dependency graph analysis.
Upgrade Impact Assessment
Before upgrading a shared library or platform component, calculate the blast radius across all dependent services. Scope migration effort with structural data.
Standardization Evidence
Measure architectural conformance across teams with quantifiable metrics. Identify which services follow platform patterns and which diverge.
What You Get
- Cross-repository dependency graph spanning all platform-dependent services
- Blast radius analysis for shared libraries and platform components
- Architectural zone mapping across multiple repositories
- SPOF detection at the platform boundary — which shared components are single points of failure
- Compliance mapping for platform-level architectural requirements
Imagine you need to upgrade a core authentication library. You run an Axiom blast radius analysis and discover that 12 services depend on it, 3 of them through internal APIs that will break on upgrade. You notify those teams with specific file-level impact reports before starting the migration — turning a potential incident into a planned rollout.