Architecture Design

Overview

Before any feature code gets written, I design the system architecture itself. How data flows, where state actually lives, what counts as a service boundary, and which infrastructure decisions will be painful and expensive to reverse a year from now.

How I Build This

Domain logic stays cleanly separated from infrastructure. This site's own content engine follows the same rule: the entity schema has no idea, and doesn't need to care, that GitHub happens to be the persistence layer underneath it. Where state lives (database, graph, vector store, cache) gets decided explicitly based on what's actually being modeled, not out of habit or whatever the last project used.

The deployment target shapes the design from the start rather than getting bolted on afterward. This site's own choice to prerender every route is a good example: the audience includes AI crawlers, not just human browsers running JavaScript, so that decision had to happen early. And trade-offs get written down, not just diagrammed. Knowing why a decision got made matters as much as knowing what it is, especially six months later when someone's trying to change it.

Who This Is For

Founders and teams starting something non-trivial who'd rather get the foundation right up front than retrofit it after the second production incident.

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