Backend engineering for the traffic you don't have yet.

For most early-stage products, a well-structured monolith is faster to build and easier to reason about than microservices you do not need yet. We design internal boundaries so it can split later, and only recommend microservices when a real scaling or team-ownership problem calls for it.

Yes, this is a common engagement. We start with an architecture audit to find where the risk actually lives, then prioritize fixes by what threatens uptime or velocity first, rather than rewriting everything at once.

gRPC for internal service-to-service calls where performance and strict contracts matter, REST for anything public-facing or consumed by a browser. Most systems end up using both, and we design the boundary deliberately rather than picking one dogmatically.

PostgreSQL by default for anything relational or transactional, MongoDB where the data is genuinely document-shaped or the access pattern benefits from it. We will tell you when a document database is being used to avoid schema design rather than because it fits.

We can, scoped explicitly as part of the engagement rather than assumed. For clients who want it, we set up monitoring and alerting and take a defined on-call rotation for production incidents.