Services / 03
THE SYSTEMS
BEHIND THE EXPERIENCE.
Overview
Contracts first
Schemas and API contracts are agreed before implementation so clients and services can progress in parallel.
- Failure is a design input
- Timeouts, retries, idempotency and back-pressure are specified up front rather than added after an incident.
- Observable by default
- Structured logs, metrics and traces ship with the service, not in a follow-up project.
Backend Engineering — reference architecture
Business problems addressed
WHEN COMPANIES CALL US.
A monolith can no longer absorb the pace of product change.
Integrations with third parties are brittle and hard to observe.
Load has outgrown the current data access and caching strategy.
Authentication, authorisation and auditability need to be done properly.
Engineering capabilities
WHAT THIS ENGAGEMENT COVERS.
- 01
API architecture
- 02
Microservices
- 03
Distributed systems
- 04
Authentication
- 05
Business logic
- 06
Databases
- 07
Caching
- 08
Queues
- 09
Real-time systems
- 10
Third-party integrations
- 11
Payment systems
- 12
Performance
- 13
Security
Typical engagements
- Greenfield API platform for a new product surface
- Decomposition of a monolith into well-bounded services
- Integration layer connecting internal systems and external providers
Technology expertise
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- gRPC
- REST
- OpenAPI
Technologies listed reflect production experience, not certifications or vendor partnerships.
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