A walkthrough of the architecture decisions behind Flacron Gamezone a production full-stack app built with Next.js, Express, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
When a client approached me to build a live football match discovery platform, the requirements sounded straightforward on the surface: show live scores, let users subscribe, handle authentication. But the moment you start thinking about how those pieces connect in production, straightforward gets complicated fast.
This is the story of how I designed the backend for Flacron Gamezone — what decisions I made, why I made them, and what broke along the way.
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The Problem With "Just Building It"
