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Architecture debt slowing every release
Systems not designed to evolve become bottlenecks. Every new feature requires weeks of untangling rather than days of building.
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System Architecture Services - Design the Foundation That Scales With Your Business
We design scalable, maintainable system architectures that grow with your product from microservices and event-driven systems to API design and database architecture.
50+ systems architected | Microservices, Event-Driven, API-First Design
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WHY CODEFLAMME
- Discovery → design → delivery under one roof
- Two-week sprints with live demos every Friday
- Dedicated team — no freelancers or hand-offs
- NDA before every project, full IP ownership
RESPONSE TIME
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We reply to every inquiry within one business day with a structured plan.
Problems We Solve
Problems We Solve
Legacy platforms, scaling bottlenecks, and one-size-fits-all tools — we see these patterns every week.
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Architecture
Scaling failures under growth
Architecture decisions made for an early-stage product frequently become the biggest barrier to growth at scale.
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rebuild cost at scale
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Fit
No documentation or shared understanding
When architecture only exists in the heads of the original engineers, every team change becomes a knowledge crisis.
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WHY CODEFLAMME
Not Another Offshore Vendor
We know the hesitation. Here's exactly how we're different.
You Talk to the People Building It
No account managers relaying messages. You're in direct contact with the founder and senior engineers on your project — every sprint, every decision.
No Bench Rotation
The team that scopes your project is the team that ships it. We don't swap engineers mid-project to free them up for someone else.
NDA Before We Talk Details
Your idea and IP are protected from the first real conversation — not after contracts are signed.
Full IP, Zero Strings
Every line of code, every design file, transfers to you on delivery. No licensing, no retained rights, no surprises.
Our Approach
How We Design Systems That Last and Scale
We approach architecture as a living discipline, not a one-time deliverable. We begin with your business constraints — team size, expected load, compliance requirements, and budget — and design the simplest architecture that meets them. We use Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to document every significant decision and the trade-offs considered, creating a permanent record for your engineering team.
Engagements start with constraint mapping and a structured review of what exists (or a greenfield threat model of what you plan to build). We pressure-test load, failure modes, data ownership, and operational cost before recommending service boundaries. Deliverables are concrete: C4 diagrams, sequence flows for critical paths, data-store choices tied to access patterns, and ADRs that capture why alternatives were rejected. Where a monolith is healthy, we keep it. Where extraction is needed, we propose a phased strangler path with clear seams — never a speculative microservices sprawl that your team cannot operate. The goal is an architecture your engineers understand and can evolve without us in the room.
- Architecture designed around team size, load, compliance, and budget
- Simplest architecture that meets your constraints — no over-engineering
- Architecture Decision Records documenting every significant trade-off
- Phased evolution plans — strangler paths over big-bang rewrites
- Diagrams and runbooks your team can own after the engagement
IMAGESystem architecture / infrastructure diagram
Capabilities
Capabilities
Reviews, service boundaries, data and caching strategy, ADRs, and capacity planning — architecture your team can operate.
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Architecture Review & Audit
Structured review of existing systems identifying bottlenecks, risks, single points of failure, and refactoring opportunities.
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Microservices Design
Decomposing monolithic applications into independently deployable services with proper domain boundaries and inter-service communication patterns.
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Event-Driven Architecture
Designing asynchronous, event-driven systems using message queues and event streams for high-throughput, loosely coupled architectures.
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API-First Design
Designing API contracts before implementation — OpenAPI specification, versioning strategy, and consumer-driven contract testing.
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Database Architecture
Selecting and designing the right data storage strategy — relational, document, graph, time-series — for your access patterns.
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Caching Strategy
Designing caching layers at the right level — CDN, application, database — to reduce latency and infrastructure cost.
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Architecture Documentation
Creating and maintaining Architecture Decision Records, system diagrams, and runbooks for your engineering team.
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Capacity Planning
Modelling expected load, growth, and failure scenarios to validate that the proposed architecture can meet your requirements.
Architecture Focus
Architecture Decisions You Can Defend
Constraint-led design, ADRs, simplest viable topology, and phased evolution — not buzzword diagrams from a slide consultancy.
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Constraints Before Patterns
Team size, compliance, latency budgets, and ops maturity drive the design. We do not prescribe Kafka-and-twelve-services because a blog post did — we prescribe what you can run Monday morning.
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ADRs as Institutional Memory
Every significant choice gets a short record: context, decision, alternatives, consequences. New hires and future you understand why the system looks the way it does without archaeological Slack searches.
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Simplest Viable Topology
Monolith, modular monolith, or selective services — chosen deliberately. Over-engineering is treated as debt: complexity you pay for in onboarding, incident response, and coordination cost.
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Evolution Paths, Not Rewrites
When change is required, we map strangler seams, dual-write windows, and rollback criteria. You get a sequence of shippable steps — not a multi-year rewrite proposal that never starts.
Technology Stack
Built With the Right Tools for Every Challenge
Distributed systems architecture — databases, messaging, and cloud patterns that scale cleanly.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Can't find what you need? Talk directly with our team.
Book a Discovery CallAs early as possible — ideally before significant development begins. The cost of fixing architecture problems grows exponentially with the amount of code built on top of them.
Ready to build something powerful?
Tell us what you are building. We will respond within 24 hours with a clear, honest assessment — no pressure, no sales pitch.
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