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Architecture

This section documents the structural design of the Platform: how responsibilities are divided, how systems interact, and how complexity is constrained as the ecosystem grows.

Rather than describing individual implementations in isolation, these pages focus on relationships, boundaries, and tradeoffs — the parts of the system that are hardest to change later.

System Overview

The System Overview presents the Platform at its highest level. It explains how applications, platform packages, domains, and CI/CD workflows fit together, and why the Platform exists as a layer beneath product code rather than a centralized runtime.

This page is the best entry point if you want to understand what the Platform is before diving into specific architectural decisions.

Domain Model

The Domain Model explains how shared behavior is defined once and reused across frameworks and products. It introduces the distinction between domains (behavioral knowledge) and adapter packages (runtime-specific entry points), and shows how this separation prevents drift as the number of applications grows.

This page is where the core architectural philosophy of the Platform is made explicit.

Package Topology

Package Topology describes how domains, adapters, and applications depend on each other in practice. It documents the enforced dependency direction, change radius, and ownership boundaries that keep the system evolvable over time.

If you want to understand how the Platform avoids duplication, hidden coupling, and fragile shared code, start here.

How These Pages Fit Together

These documents are designed to be read in order:

  1. System Overview — establish the mental model

  2. Domain Model — explain responsibility boundaries

  3. Package Topology — show how those boundaries are enforced

Together, they describe not just how the Platform is built, but how it is intended to scale.

Scope and Constraints

This section focuses on architecture, not implementation details.

  • It does not document individual APIs or functions

  • It does not describe CI/CD execution step-by-step

  • It does not duplicate the Platform case study

Those concerns live in their respective sections.

Last modified: 18 December 2025