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This skill provides expertise in proven backend architectural patterns, including Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD). It guides users in building highly maintainable, testable, and scalable systems. Use it when designing new services, refactoring complex monoliths, establishing team standards, or planning microservice decompositions. It emphasizes defining clear boundaries and handling complex, durable workflows.

This skill provides expertise in proven backend architectural patterns, including Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD). It guides users in building highly maintainable, testable, and scalable systems. Use it when designing new services, refactoring complex monoliths, establishing team standards, or planning microservice decompositions. It emphasizes defining clear boundaries and handling complex, durable workflows.

This skill guides the architectural definition of complex business domains using Domain-Driven Design (DDD). It helps in defining core subdomains, separating services by bounded contexts, and establishing a unified ubiquitous language. It is essential for decomposing monoliths, structuring microservices, and aligning team ownership with clear domain boundaries.

Creates step-by-step decomposition plans and migration roadmaps to guide the transition from monolithic applications to distributed architectures, prioritizing risk, value, and dependencies while tracking progress through pattern-based phases.

A comprehensive guide for safely migrating monolithic or aging codebases. It details incremental modernization strategies, dependency mapping, and the implementation of the Strangler Fig pattern. Learn how to build safety nets using characterization tests, manage rollouts with feature flags, and achieve zero-downtime refactoring to reduce technical debt without business disruption.

Guides distributed system architecture by decomposing monoliths, defining bounded contexts, selecting communication protocols, and recommending resilience, observability, and deployment strategies for cloud-native microservices.

This skill outlines a comprehensive, low-downtime process for migrating APIs between different versions, frameworks, or platforms. It guides the implementation of advanced architectural patterns like the Strangler Fig pattern, traffic shadowing, and canary deployments. Use this when upgrading a monolithic API to microservices or transitioning between incompatible API versions.

Guides teams through designing and building scalable modular monolith backends in NestJS, leveraging DDD, Clean Architecture, CQRS, and NX monorepos while planning evolution paths to microservices.

A comprehensive guide to configuring Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring across modern application architectures. Learn how to implement coherent, end-to-end distributed tracing for monoliths, microservices, serverless functions (Lambda/Cloud Functions), event-driven systems, SPAs, and mobile applications, ensuring all application hops are monitored from a single source.

This advanced pipeline orchestrates complex feature development based on Request for Comments (RFCs). It breaks down monolithic changes into small, independently verifiable work units, managing dependencies through a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). It includes multiple quality gates, dedicated unit testing, and a safe merge queue to ensure robust integration and controlled deployment.

A comprehensive guide detailing three validated architectural patterns (Monolith, Service Layer, Microservice) for integrating with the Canva Connect API. This blueprint helps developers choose the optimal structure—from simple MVPs to complex enterprise systems—by addressing concerns like token management, asynchronous exports, rate limiting, and scaling strategies.

This skill runs a comprehensive, sequenced pipeline (Patterns 1-5) to structurally analyze a monolithic codebase. It inventories components, detects domain duplication, resolves hierarchy issues, measures inter-module coupling, and groups components into candidate, domain-aligned services. It is essential for architects planning service extraction, providing actionable metrics and DDD insights before refactoring or splitting the application.