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# Platform Architecture

## Overview

Hardpoint's platform merges several best practices in systems architecture, crypto and network design to expose a surface that almost transparently lets you treat thousands of Postgres databases like one.

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## Key Resources

### Platform-scoped Resources

These are resources which cover multiple product boundaries.

#### Organizations

A Hardpoint Organization (Org) is the fundamental boundary for you, the Hardpoint customer. It contains all other resources in your Hardpoint account. It is also the entity responsible for billing.

#### Users

Users are human members of your Hardpoint Organization. They 

Services

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## Key Components

### Control Plane API

The Control Plane API is the source of truth for coordination data in Hardpoint Connect and Hardpoint Lattice.

### Routing Mesh

### Database Layer

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