Design it to
handle 10x before you need to.
We design system architecture — distributed systems, data architecture, and infrastructure — built to handle real growth in traffic, data and team size without forcing a rewrite. Senior architects, fixed scope, decisions made once, correctly, instead of revisited under pressure.
180+ teams shipping with our engineers · ISO 27001-secure · NDA on request
— What we build
Four ways we design for scale.
From a targeted architecture review to a full distributed-systems redesign, we design the structure that matches the growth you’re actually planning for. (Need a full application built around the architecture? See our Custom Software Development, Enterprise Application Development or SaaS Product Development pages.)
Architecture review & audit
An honest assessment of where your current system will break under real growth, before it does.
Bottleneck analysis
Capacity planning
Risk assessment
Distributed systems & microservices design
Break apart a monolith or design services from scratch, with clear boundaries and failure isolation.
Microservices
Service boundaries
Failure isolation
Data architecture & database scaling
Sharding, replication, caching and data-model decisions so the database isn’t the thing that falls over first.
Sharding
Replication
Caching strategy
High-availability & disaster recovery design
Architecture that survives a zone outage, a bad deploy, or a traffic spike without going down.
Multi-region
Failover
Disaster recovery
- Featured · Designed for the growth you're planning for
Most systems don't fail at scale — they fail at the
architecture decision made two years earlier.
Most “the system can’t handle this” moments trace back to an architecture decision made when the team was smaller and the traffic was lower — not bad code written under pressure today. Before we redesign anything, we model the growth you’re actually planning for — traffic, data volume, team size — and architect for that number, not the one you have today.
Growth-modeled
No single points of failure
Load-tested
Designed once, correctly
1
MODEL
Define the growth you’re actually planning for
2
DESIGN
Architect data, services & infrastructure for it
3
VALIDATE
Load-test against real target numbers
Outcome
We start with a business-logic audit — so the new system does everything the old one did, deliberately, not by accident.
14 years · 300+ PRODUCTS
Built to hold up under load,
not just look good on a whiteboard.
300+
Products shipped to production
across 9 industries
14yrs
Years in business
founded 2012
95%
Engagement extension
clients renew or expand
ISO 27001
Audited data security
brief → first standup
Capabilities & stack
Boring tech that
ships on time.
We design architecture with proven distributed-systems patterns — not the newest exotic database, the one that’s actually operable by the team who inherits it in three years.
How we pick
01
Model growth before designing anything
Before we draw a diagram, we define the real target — requests per second, data volume, concurrent users — so the design has a number to be measured against.
02
Design for failure, not just happy-path load
A system that scales but falls over the moment one component fails isn’t scalable — it’s fragile. We design for graceful degradation and failure isolation.
03
Validate with real load tests
Architecture decisions get tested against the actual target numbers before implementation — not assumed to work because the diagram looks right.
04
Real engineering where it counts
Distributed systems patterns, proper data architecture and infrastructure-as-code when a single server and a bigger instance size run out of road.
ARCHITECTURE PATTERNS
Microservices
Event-driven architecture
CQRS
Domain-driven design
DATA & SCALING
PostgreSQL / MySQL sharding
Redis
Elasticsearch
Read replicas
INFRASTRUCTURE
AWS / Azure / GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
Auto-scaling
MESSAGING & ASYNC
Kafka
RabbitMQ
AWS SQS/SNS
Event streaming
TESTING & VALIDATION
Automated regression testing
Data reconciliation
Load testing
Industries
System
architecture tuned for your industry.
Every industry has its own growth patterns, compliance requirements and tolerance for downtime. We bring playbooks, not generic diagrams — and design the architecture around your organization’s real risks from day one.
Healthcare
Architecture that stays available and compliant under load.
- High-availability design for clinical systems that can't go down
- HIPAA-compliant data architecture and access boundaries
- Capacity planning for patient-volume growth
Finance & Fintech
Architecture built for transaction volume and audit scrutiny.
- Data architecture designed for transaction-volume growth
- Failure-isolated services for compliance-critical systems
- Disaster recovery design meeting regulatory requirements
Retail & E-commerce
Architecture that survives the traffic spike, not just the average day.
- Load-tested architecture for peak sales-event traffic
- Caching and data architecture for high-read catalog systems
- Multi-region design for global storefront availability
Logistics
Architecture that keeps tracking and dispatch running under load.
- High-availability design for real-time tracking systems
- Data architecture scaled for shipment-volume growth
- Failover design for dispatch systems that can't go down
Engagement models
Pick how you want to
ship with us.
Three ways in — all senior architects, all fixed against the growth target we agree on before the first diagram is drawn.
Fixed-scope
Architecture review & audit
Best when you know growth is coming but aren’t sure where the system will break.
- Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline
- Bottleneck analysis and capacity planning against real growth targets
- A prioritized architecture roadmap
Most popular
Fixed-scope
Project-based build
Best for a defined redesign with a clear growth target.
- Scope → deploy in 4-10 weeks
- Fixed scope, fixed price — no hourly drift
- Load-tested against your actual target numbers
- Full architecture documentation & implementation guidance
Embedded
Staff augmentation
Plug senior systems architects into your team.
- 8+ yr average, hand-picked, never on a bench
- Distributed systems, data architecture and infrastructure skills
- Direct line to your CTO or VP Engineering
FAQ
The questions
everyone asks before kickoff.
Not sure if you need an architecture review or a full redesign? Book a 30-min call with a senior architect.
How do we know if our current architecture actually needs to change?
We run an architecture review that identifies real bottlenecks against your actual growth targets — not a generic best-practices checklist — so you know whether you need a change now, or whether the current design has more room to run.
What does "scalable" actually mean for our specific system?
It means defined, measurable targets — requests per second, concurrent users, data volume — that the architecture is designed and load-tested against. We avoid vague scalability claims and work from real numbers you provide or help define.
Do we need microservices, or is a monolith fine for us?
Often a monolith is fine, especially for smaller teams — microservices solve organizational and scaling problems that not every company has yet, and they add real operational complexity. We recommend based on your actual team size and growth stage, not a trend.
How do you make sure the architecture won't just fail differently under load?
Every design is validated with load testing against your real target numbers before implementation, and designed for graceful degradation — so a failure in one part doesn’t take down the whole system.
Can you review an architecture designed by another team or vendor?
Yes — we regularly audit existing architectures, identify real risks and bottlenecks, and provide a prioritized roadmap, whether or not we’re the ones who designed it originally.
Do you actually build the system, or just design the architecture?
Both, depending on what you need. We can deliver architecture documentation and guidance for your team to implement, or pair the design with a full build through our application development pages — your call.
How do you handle disaster recovery and high availability in the design?
Multi-region deployment, failover strategies and disaster recovery planning are part of the architecture design itself, sized to your actual downtime tolerance — not a generic “99.99% uptime” claim with no plan behind it.
Who owns the architecture documentation, and can our team maintain it going forward?
You own it, fully — architecture diagrams, decision records, and documentation, with no vendor lock-in. We hand over everything your team needs to implement and evolve it.
ISO 27001-secure · Certified since 2020
Let's design for the growth you're planning for..
Send your brief — a senior architect (not a sales rep) replies within 24 hours with a read on your real bottlenecks, and a fixed-scope plan for the design.
- A 30-min scoping call with a senior architect
- A bottleneck and capacity read against your growth targets
- A scalable architecture design, load-tested
- Documentation your team can implement — yours to keep
