backend-architect
Design Scalable Backend Architectures
Backend design requires balancing scale, reliability, security, and maintainability. This skill creates structured architectures, contracts, safeguards, and rollout plans.
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Using "backend-architect". Design an order service handling payments, inventory reservations, and shipment updates.
Expected outcome:
- Service responsibilities and ownership boundaries
- Synchronous command and asynchronous event flows
- Idempotency, retry, compensation, and timeout policies
- Authentication, observability, testing, and rollout plans
Using "backend-architect". Plan a gradual migration from a monolith to customer and billing services.
Expected outcome:
A phased extraction plan with contracts, ownership changes, compatibility controls, risk checkpoints, rollback conditions, and measurable success criteria.
Using "backend-architect". Review a high-volume webhook delivery platform.
Expected outcome:
A design review covering queues, worker isolation, signatures, retries, deduplication, rate limits, delivery metrics, dead letters, and capacity risks.
Security Audit
SafeBoth static findings are false positives caused by harmless prose. The skill contains architecture guidance and no operational filesystem access or system reconnaissance behavior.
Risk Factors
📁 Filesystem access (1)
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2 installable variantsEach author remains a separate installable skill. The recommended variant is ranked by Skillstore evidence.
Why this variant is first
bikach-backend-architect
2026-08-21
sickn33-backend-architect
2026-08-21
Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Launch a New Service
Define APIs, data ownership, resilience, observability, testing, and rollout requirements before implementation.
Decompose a Monolith
Identify bounded contexts, extraction order, integration contracts, migration risks, and strangler rollout steps.
Review a Distributed Workflow
Evaluate messaging, idempotency, retries, consistency, failure handling, security, and operational visibility.
Try These Prompts
Design a backend API for [domain]. Include resources, operations, authentication, validation, errors, pagination, and testing.
Propose service boundaries for [system]. Explain ownership, contracts, dependencies, consistency needs, and alternatives.
Design an event-driven workflow for [process]. Cover schemas, ordering, idempotency, retries, dead letters, observability, and recovery.
Review this architecture against [requirements]. Identify bottlenecks, failure modes, security gaps, operational risks, trade-offs, and phased improvements.
Best Practices
- Provide measurable traffic, latency, availability, consistency, retention, and compliance requirements.
- Describe current constraints, team skills, deployment environment, dependencies, and migration deadlines.
- Validate recommendations through threat modeling, load testing, failure testing, and incremental rollout.
Avoid
- Do not request microservices without explaining the domain boundaries or operational need.
- Do not accept technology choices without documented trade-offs and measurable requirements.
- Do not deploy generated designs without implementation review, testing, monitoring, and rollback preparation.