The foundation is designed, never improvised.
Architecture is where the discovery decisions become a concrete technical design. We settle the data, the surfaces and the security model before a single feature is built on top, because these are the parts that cannot be patched in later.
Data model first
We start at the database. Whether the app is single-tenant or multi-tenant, and whether each tenant shares a schema or gets its own isolated database, is decided up front. Every entity and relationship is mapped, and the full data layer is finalised (migrations, models, factories, seeders) before anything is built on top of it.
Presentation architecture
We decide the surfaces first (web, mobile, or both) and let that drive the architecture. Web and mobile means one Vue codebase, with Capacitor handling iOS and Android in parallel. Routing, middleware and state management are designed as a complete front-end architecture from the start.
Authentication, deliberately chosen
Auth is planned around the devices it serves. Cross-device usually means Laravel Sanctum: cookie-session auth for the first-party SPA, and token auth for the Capacitor iOS and Android apps. One guard, the right mode per client.
Decisions that pay off under real traffic
The unglamorous parts of architecture that decide whether a system survives a busy day.
Designed for concurrency, from the schema up
Race conditions are solved where they actually happen, at the database level. The right composite and covering indexes for the access patterns the app actually has. Unique constraints and idempotency keys on natural-key columns, so a double-click, a retried webhook or two workers picking the same job can't create a duplicate charge, booking or row.
Write path and read path, kept separate
In high-concurrency systems we split the path that writes data (transactional, where some latency is fine) from the path that serves it (read-optimised and fast). Read replicas, Redis-backed caches and projection tables where they make sense, so the dashboard stays fast even when checkout is busy.
The rest of the process
Each stage builds on the one before it. See how the others work, or view the full picture.
This is why our systems hold up.
Foundation before features is the order we work in, every time. If that is the kind of engineering you want behind your product, let's talk.