Architecture & CloudConference50min
Stop Building Technical Debt: Architecture Patterns for Startups That Scale
The text explains how startups can evolve from ad hoc infrastructure to secure, scalable cloud-native platforms without full rewrites. It highlights architecture patterns—containers, PostgreSQL, and event-driven design—and offers guidance on when to adopt them, especially for handling multi-tenancy and growth.
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Natalie GodecZencore
"Just get it working" is a valid startup strategy - until your product succeeds. Eventually, you will need to face the task of migrating from hastily thrown-together infrastructure to a proper platform, secure, scalable, cloud-native and demanding an actual answer to the question of "How do you deal with multi-tenancy?"
After helping a dozen companies - from startups to established enterprises - go from "a couple of VMs and a load balancer" to the next-generation platform the business needed, I identified the architecture patterns that make this journey dramatically easier. They will probably not surprise you: containers, PostgreSQL, event-driven architecture.
Let me walk you through the platform evolution paths that don't require full rewrites, what works best for each scenario, and when to adopt each pattern (spoiler: earlier than you think).
After helping a dozen companies - from startups to established enterprises - go from "a couple of VMs and a load balancer" to the next-generation platform the business needed, I identified the architecture patterns that make this journey dramatically easier. They will probably not surprise you: containers, PostgreSQL, event-driven architecture.
Let me walk you through the platform evolution paths that don't require full rewrites, what works best for each scenario, and when to adopt each pattern (spoiler: earlier than you think).
Natalie Godec
Ingénieure de systèmes/devops/cloud, actuellement Architecte Cloud chez Zencore. Je suis passionnée par les infras complexes, la sécurité du cloud et les plateformes de données, et j'en parle souvent car c'est avec le partage d'expériences qu'on avance la technologie pour le bien du monde. Je suis Ukrainienne, j'habite à Londres, et en dehors de la tech je fais de la photographie.