Read-only audit AND decision advisor for backend/distributed-systems architecture, topology-gated so a Next.js/Supabase monolith and a Kubernetes fleet each see only relevant findings. Reports which patterns are present (maturity matrix, file:line), then — following "start simple, earn every pattern" — recommends which to adopt now, adopt-when-[trigger], or defer as premature, flagging over-engineering and the distributed-monolith anti-pattern. Covers sync request/response vs event-driven, cache-aside, database-per-service, API gateway, BFF, circuit breaker, bulkhead, outbox + CDC, saga, CQRS, hexagonal, strangler-fig, service mesh, cell-based, mTLS, tracing + SLOs, contract testing. Use when "audit backend architecture", "which pattern should I use", "am I over-engineering", "sync vs event-driven", "cache-aside/CQRS/saga/db-per-service", "microservices resilience review", or "audit-backend-architecture". Defers per-call resilience to audit-resilience; fixes via backend-patterns.
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Read-only audit AND decision advisor for backend/distributed-systems architecture, topology-gated so a Next.js/Supabase monolith and a Kubernetes fleet each see only relevant findings. Reports which patterns are present (maturity matrix, file:line), then — following "start simple, earn every pattern" — recommends which to adopt now, adopt-when-[trigger], or defer as premature, flagging over-engineering and the distributed-monolith anti-pattern. Covers sync request/response vs event-driven, cache-aside, database-per-service, API gateway, BFF, circuit breaker, bulkhead, outbox + CDC, saga, CQRS, hexagonal, strangler-fig, service mesh, cell-based, mTLS, tracing + SLOs, contract testing. Use when "audit backend architecture", "which pattern should I use", "am I over-engineering", "sync vs event-driven", "cache-aside/CQRS/saga/db-per-service", "microservices resilience review", or "audit-backend-architecture". Defers per-call resilience to audit-resilience; fixes via backend-patterns.
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Read-only audit AND decision advisor for backend/distributed-systems architecture, topology-gated so a Next.js/Supabase monolith and a Kubernetes fleet each see only relevant findings. Reports which patterns are present (maturity matrix, file:line), then — following "start simple, earn every pattern" — recommends which to adopt now, adopt-when-[trigger], or defer as premature, flagging over-engineering and the distributed-monolith anti-pattern. Covers sync request/response vs event-driven, cache-aside, database-per-service, API gateway, BFF, circuit breaker, bulkhead, outbox + CDC, saga, CQRS, hexagonal, strangler-fig, service mesh, cell-based, mTLS, tracing + SLOs, contract testing. Use when "audit backend architecture", "which pattern should I use", "am I over-engineering", "sync vs event-driven", "cache-aside/CQRS/saga/db-per-service", "microservices resilience review", or "audit-backend-architecture". Defers per-call resilience to audit-resilience; fixes via backend-patterns.
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Category
Engineering
Reported license
MIT
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI