This company provides compliance services that help building owners and managers plan safety inspections and streamline documentation. They focus on coordinating efforts to verify evidence and maintain adherence to evolving building safety regulations. Services centralize data, maintain auditable trails, and reduce administrative burdens for duty holders.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Modern applications require low latency and data residency, which are difficult to achieve with traditional centralized Postgres databases, especially when serving a global user base. Sharding and replication, while potential solutions, are complex to implement and manage, often requiring significant application-level changes and specialized expertise.
Solution
Fortress provides a platform that simplifies global data replication and sharding for Postgres databases, enabling developers to build and scale geographically distributed applications with ease. By using a single connection string, the platform automatically routes database connections to the closest replica, minimizing latency and ensuring optimal performance for users worldwide. Fortress handles the complexities of sharding and replication behind the scenes, allowing developers to focus on building their applications without worrying about the underlying database infrastructure. The platform also supports zero-downtime resharding, enabling effortless scaling to meet evolving performance and data residency requirements.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes Postgres developers and organizations building real-time e-commerce platforms, web applications, multi-tenant SaaS offerings, and global API services that require low latency and data residency.
Features
- Geographic routing: connections are automatically routed to the closest replica based on location.
- Single connection string: simplifies database access and management for globally distributed applications.
- Zero-downtime resharding: enables effortless scaling without application downtime.
- Easy migration: simplifies the process of importing existing Postgres databases.
- Managed sharding: ensures isolation, reduces noisy neighbor issues, and meets geographical data residency requirements.
- Support for multiple cloud regions: including AWS, Azure, and GCP.