Architecture Overview

General system architecture and component interactions.

High-Level Design

graph TD
    User[Clients] -->|HTTPS| LB[Load Balancer / Proxy]
    LB -->|Reverse Proxy| App[Application Containers]
    App -->|Read/Write| DB[(Primary Database)]
    App -->|Cache| Redis[(Redis Cache)]

    subgraph Management
        Monitoring[Prometheus / Grafana]
        Backup[Backup Service]
    end

    Monitoring -.-> App
    Monitoring -.-> DB

Components

1. Edge Layer (Nginx/Traefik): Handles SSL termination and routing.
2. Application Layer (Docker): Stateless containers running business logic.
3. Data Layer (PostgreSQL/MySQL): Persistent storage with volume management.
4. Caching (Redis): Session and transient data storage.