CYPEX internals

In this section, you’ll be guided through the internals of CYPEX. You’ll get to know the basic architecture of the solution and gain some insights into how things work. It helps to understand some basic concepts, in order to use CYPEX even more efficiently.

Before you look at the architecture of a CYPEX app from an end user perspective, you’ll first want to understand the overall software layout:

CYPEX is delivered as a set of Docker containers, which makes deployment easy and efficient. In general, CYPEX can run on top of an existing, standard PostgreSQL database. There are no dependencies on external extensions.