Core service foundations
Shared services every product needs
- Authentication
- User profiles
- Notifications
- Document storage
- Audit
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Enterprise foundations. Startup speed.
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Backbone gives engineers the architectural foundation of an enterprise system immediately: zero-trust security, horizontal scalability, observability, and operational discipline. Backbone removes a huge chunk of the engineering work all early-stage teams will end up reinventing themselves. Book a discovery call now
Early adopters:
Free founder-led deployment support
The entire operational stack behind a modern SaaS company.
With Backbone you build one thing - your product - and everything underneath is already engineered, deployed, and immediately operational.
You build this
Your product
your domain services & UI
Backbone
provides everything below
Applications & UIs
How clients reach your product
- BFF orchestration
- Reference website
- Persona APIs
Delivery
From commit to production
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infra as code
- Fully automated releases
Operations
Knowing it works in production
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Alerting
- Tracing
- Runbooks
Security
Locked down by default
- Zero-trust
- Secrets
- Encryption
- Access control
Infrastructure
Where it runs and stores data
- AWS
- ECS
- Postgres, DynamoDB & S3
- Networking
- Autoscaling
Governance
Built for auditability
- Audit trails
- Control mapping
- Compliance roadmap
Developer experience
Ready to build from day one
- Task operations plane
- Free-tier local dev
- Docs & templates
- Dependency mgmt
Most teams spend years assembling this. With Backbone a capable engineer can be deploying on a production-ready platform on Day 1.
At a fraction of
the cost.
Most teams will spend several years building the platform Backbone gives you from day one. Start building production-grade, domain-driven microservices in days not months, and launch with year-three operational maturity.
See how Backbone compares to DIY and adjacent tools.
Start with
6 core
services - auth, audit, document, user, notification, BFF orchestration
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31k+
LOC, GHA workflows, IaC, and operational tooling
GitHub
free tier
AWS
free tier development
1 Backbone licence
unlimited environments
~ $200k-$500k direct engineering costs over several years
Backbone
From
$1,250
per month
Backbone gives teams access to platform maturity that normally only emerges after several years of operational iteration.
Compress years of engineering into days of onboarding.
Focus your engineering effort on domain services - not undifferentiated infrastructure.
Who is Backbone for?
Backbone is for greenfield engineering teams that need enterprise foundations before enterprise headcount.
Built for founding engineers and CTOs with a real deadline - a launch, customer rollout, or fundraise - who cannot afford months of undifferentiated platform work before shipping value.
You get production-ready infrastructure from day one so your team can focus on product instead of rebuilding the same operational foundations every scaling company eventually needs.
Shortcut your CTO or founding engineers' workload by ~50%.
What changes in practice
- Reach production months sooner without pausing product development to build internal infrastructure
- Protect runway by avoiding a six-figure platform build before revenue justifies it
- Reduce launch and early-growth risk with observability, deployment discipline, and operational maturity from the start
- Keep engineers focused on product differentiation instead of glue code and rework
Backbone is likely a fit if
- You have a fixed milestone - and slipping it costs you customers, runway, or credibility
- You expect to scale beyond a simple MVP
- You've seen "fast" architectures become expensive rewrites once growth or enterprise requirements arrive
- You need production credibility now without hiring a platform engineering team first
Backbone is designed for engineering teams that already know backend architecture and operational maturity will become a competitive requirement.
Backbone is probably not for you if
- Your product does not need customer accounts, authentication, or the operational foundations behind a SaaS company
- A simple monolith on Vercel solves your next 2 years
- Your application has minimal operational complexity
- You do not expect scale, security, multi-service architecture, or infrastructure requirements to become strategic
Backbone gives greenfield engineering teams the kind of internal platform capability normally built by companies 10x their size.
Technical overview
Core services
Authentication, audit, document storage, notifications and
user management, plus BFF proxy service.
Every service ships with architectural capabilities baked in - caching, circuit breakers and other Quarkus SmallRye Fault Tolerance, distributed tracing, health checks, metrics and throttling.
Zero-trust, stateless architecture
No server-side sessions. Identity verified on every request. Services and clients scale horizontally without coordination.
Automated delivery pipelines
GitHub workflows handle building, testing, container publishing, and infrastructure deployment, providing consistent delivery pipelines across every environment.
GraalVM native load-test on ECS
Published benchmarks demonstrate near-linear horizontal scaling and sustained throughput of ~222 req/s at 200 VUs with just 2x minimal ECS tasks (0.25 vCPU / 512MB each) on production-style AWS infrastructure.
Operational tooling included
A mature suite of taskfile and automation scripts that streamline all operations, from environment setup to production deployments.
Observability built in
Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing are configured from the outset, making system behaviour visible and production issues easier to diagnose.
Technical overview
Core services
Authentication, audit, document storage, notifications and
user management, plus BFF proxy service.
Every service ships with architectural capabilities baked in - caching, circuit breakers and other Quarkus SmallRye Fault Tolerance, distributed tracing, health checks, metrics and throttling.
Zero-trust, stateless architecture
No server-side sessions. Identity verified on every request. Services and clients scale horizontally without coordination.
Automated delivery pipelines
GitHub workflows handle building, testing, container publishing, and infrastructure deployment, providing consistent delivery pipelines across every environment.
GraalVM native load-test on ECS
Published benchmarks demonstrate near-linear horizontal scaling and sustained throughput of ~222 req/s at 200 VUs with just 2x minimal ECS tasks (0.25 vCPU / 512MB each) on production-style AWS infrastructure.
Operational tooling included
A mature suite of taskfile and automation scripts that streamline all operations, from environment setup to production deployments.
Observability built in
Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing are configured from the outset, making system behaviour visible and production issues easier to diagnose.
Enterprise foundations. Without enterprise overhead.
Many startups begin with a single service and gradually assemble
authentication, observability, deployment pipelines, and
infrastructure standards over several years.
Backbone packages the architectural discipline, operational maturity,
and security model expected in modern enterprises - in a form
startups and scaling teams can adopt immediately.
Teams can focus on building domain services and product features
instead of constructing the underlying platform.
Whether you're launching a new enterprise product or rebuilding
a PoC to scale securely, Backbone lets you start with a production-
ready architecture instead of growing into one.
Validated under sustained load
Backbone has been load-tested on production-style AWS infrastructure (ECS, GraalVM native) with repeatable throughput, predictable scaling under concurrency, and clean recovery via horizontal task scaling.
Security by design
Zero-trust, identity-first architecture ensures every request is verified and services operate without server-side session state.
Operational visibility
Logging, metrics, and tracing configured from day one, making system behavior predictable and production issues easier to diagnose.
Deployment confidence
Automated CI/CD, environment isolation, and infrastructure as code reduce drift and eliminate environment-specific surprises.
Cloud-native scalability
Horizontally scalable, resilient services built on containerized AWS architecture.
Pricing aligned with scale. Not features.
Backbone is a foundational architecture, not a feature bundle.
All clients receive the same production-ready platform.
Monthly
Annual
(Save ~17%)
Foundation
Funded or venture-backed teams building their first production platform.
$
1250
/month
Billed $15,000 annually
- Full Backbone
- Documentation and email support
- Production-ready operating model from day one
Most popular
Growth
Established engineering teams launching new products or replacing legacy platforms.
$
2500
/month
Billed $30,000 annually
- Everything in Foundation
- Priority support and Slack access
- Architecture guidance (e.g. quarterly review)
Enterprise
Multi-team, portfolio, or custom commercial terms.
Custom pricing
- Everything in Growth
- Direct engagement with founder / architect
- Optional consulting and roadmap collaboration