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Systems Architecture
Distributed system design, event-driven topology, and capacity planning for systems that must remain available under adversarial conditions.
- · Event sourcing
- · Multi-region failover
- · Capacity modeling
/ 02 — About the studio
A closed-loop practice. Eleven years, one method.
/ Manifesto
AXION operates as a closed-loop engineering practice. We do not chase trends or stockpile talent. Every engagement begins with a written brief, a fixed scope, and a single accountable engineer. We measure our work in decades, not quarters. The systems we ship today are designed to be maintained by someone we will never meet, in a decade we will not see. This is the only definition of engineering we accept.
Mara Voss, Founding Engineer
Founded in Brooklyn, 2014.
AXION began as a two-person workshop above a printing press in Williamsburg. The first client was a quantitative hedge fund that needed a trading system rebuilt in eleven weeks. We shipped it in ten.
Eleven years later, we are thirty-eight engineers, designers, and researchers split between Brooklyn and Berlin. We have never raised outside capital. We have never grown faster than our ability to maintain quality. We intend to keep it that way.
Headquarters
Brooklyn, NY
12,000 sq ft · 2014
European Office
Berlin, DE
6,500 sq ft · 2019
Structure
Independent
Founder-owned
Engagement model
Fixed scope
No hourly billing
· Systems engineering· Applied research
