Services
Solution architecture
Architecture is the plan the build is not allowed to ignore. IncogX designs the system, the security posture, and the sequence of delivery, then asks for approval before engineering starts.
In brief, then in detail
- High-level design. The systems, the boundaries, and how data and responsibility move between them. Enough for a CTO to see the shape, and for a sponsor to see the risk.
- Low-level design. The services, data stores, and interfaces the team will build against. Detailed where a wrong guess would be expensive.
- Quality attributes. Performance, security, availability, and operability written as requirements, not as adjectives.
- Roadmap. What is in the first release, what is deliberately later, and which decisions are reversible.
How it is run
Architecture sits in the planning work, after discovery and before the first sprint that produces production code. The design is a baseline. A later change goes through the same visibility as any other change: what moved, what it costs, and who accepted it. Architecture decision records keep the reason next to the choice, so a new engineer does not have to reconstruct history from chat.
GateApproved before production code
DurationUsually 1–3 weeks
RecordDecisions written, not implied
Design artefacts
- Context diagram
- High-level design
- Interface contracts
- Threat notes
- Sprint roadmap
- Decision records
Terms, in plain language
- Baseline. The approved version of scope, design, schedule, or cost. Later work is compared with it, not with memory.
- Architecture decision record. A short note: the context, the decision, and the consequence. It stops the same argument returning every sprint.
- Non-functional requirement. How the system must behave apart from features: speed, uptime, security, recovery, and the load it must carry.
- Integration. The agreed way two systems exchange data or events, including what happens when one of them fails.