c"></div><div id="doc-content"><h1>Mixer</h1><p>The page explains Mixer’s role and general architecture.</p><h2 id="background">Background</h2><p>Infrastructure backends are designed to provide support functionality that is used to build services. They include such things as access control systems, telemetry capturing systems, quota enforcement systems, billing systems, and so forth. Services traditionally directly integrate with these backend systems, creating a hard coupling and baking-in specific seman