Engineering Roadmap 2026-2029

A four-year technical progression focused on platform maturity, operational reliability, and ecosystem expansion.

Each phase of the roadmap is grounded in engineering outcomes rather than features. The goal is to build infrastructure and capabilities that compound—each year's work providing a more stable and capable foundation for the next.

2026

Foundation and Stability

Establish production-grade infrastructure, standardize development workflows, and deliver the first stable versions of the core ecosystem services. Focus is on reliability, security fundamentals, and continuous delivery discipline.

Infrastructure

  • Production Docker environments with defined health checks and restart policies
  • Nginx configuration standardized across all services with TLS and rate limiting
  • Centralized logging pipeline with structured JSON output
  • Secrets management using environment-based injection, no hardcoded credentials

Security

  • JWT issuance and validation across all service entry points
  • RBAC model defined and enforced for all resource types
  • Automated dependency vulnerability scanning in CI
  • TLS certificates managed and renewed automatically

Delivery

  • GitHub Actions CI pipeline for all active repositories
  • Automated test coverage requirements before merge
  • Staging environment that mirrors production topology
  • Deployment runbooks documented for each service

Product

  • OpsLedger v1 deployed to production
  • Arthemiz identity service with multi-tenant support
  • SystemHealth dashboard operational with alerting
  • Sentinel v1 with access pattern monitoring
2027

Scale and Modularity

Transition from a single-deployment monolith to well-defined modules with isolated concerns. Introduce messaging infrastructure, multi-tenancy, and the first public-facing product release. Engineering velocity should increase as modules become independently releasable.

Architecture

  • Bounded module boundaries enforced with internal APIs
  • RabbitMQ deployed as the async messaging layer
  • Redis cache layer introduced for session and config data
  • Inter-module communication via events, not direct database access

Multi-Tenancy

  • Tenant isolation at the data and routing layer
  • Per-tenant RBAC configuration and role inheritance
  • Tenant provisioning workflow automated end-to-end
  • Billing and usage tracking integrated into OpsLedger

Delivery

  • Per-module CI pipelines with independent versioning
  • Blue/green deployment capability on the staging environment
  • Post-deployment smoke tests automated per release
  • Rollback procedures tested quarterly

Product

  • Vendas3D v1 public release with REST API
  • Developer documentation for all public APIs
  • Arthemiz OAuth 2.0 authorization server
  • SystemHealth extended with queue depth and cache metrics
2028

Microservices and Distribution

Services with independent release cadence and high load requirements are extracted into fully autonomous microservices. Distributed tracing and advanced observability provide the visibility needed to operate a multi-service platform safely.

Architecture

  • High-traffic modules promoted to independent microservices
  • API Gateway handling authentication and routing centrally
  • Per-service databases enforcing data ownership boundaries
  • gRPC for synchronous internal communication where latency is critical

Observability

  • Distributed tracing with trace context propagated across all hops
  • Grafana dashboards per service with SLI/SLO definitions
  • Error budget tracking for all production services
  • Incident response runbooks integrated with alerting

Resilience

  • Circuit breakers on all cross-service calls
  • Retry policies and dead-letter queues for all RabbitMQ consumers
  • Chaos engineering experiments run against staging monthly
  • Data backup and point-in-time recovery tested per service

Platform

  • Private container registry with signed and scanned images
  • Infrastructure-as-code for all environment provisioning
  • Developer portal with API catalog and self-service access
  • Automated scaling policies based on queue depth and CPU metrics
2029

Platform Maturity

The platform reaches full operational maturity: self-service developer tooling, enterprise SLA capabilities, partner integrations, and a stable API surface that external systems can depend on. Engineering focus shifts toward platform efficiency, cost optimization, and maintainability.

Platform API

  • Public platform API with versioning and long-term stability guarantees
  • SDK libraries for primary integration languages
  • Webhook delivery for all platform events with retry guarantees
  • API usage analytics and quota management for all consumers

Enterprise Capabilities

  • SLA-backed uptime commitments for production services
  • Enterprise SSO integration (SAML, OIDC)
  • Data residency and compliance configuration per tenant
  • Dedicated support channels with defined response SLOs

Developer Experience

  • Self-service provisioning for new tenants and environments
  • Internal developer platform for service scaffolding and deployment
  • Onboarding documentation with runnable code examples
  • Sandbox environments available for integration testing

Efficiency

  • Cost attribution per service, tenant, and feature area
  • Automated resource right-sizing recommendations
  • Dependency audit and reduction of third-party surface area
  • Platform carbon footprint reporting for sustainability compliance