How We Engineer Software
Every Aaitek engagement is governed by the same engineering standards that enterprise-grade software demands. These are not aspirations — they are enforced through tooling, process, and code review gates at every step of delivery.
Architecture Principles
- ✓Cloud-native by default: containerised, stateless, horizontally scalable
- ✓API-first: every capability exposed as a versioned, documented API
- ✓Event-driven where appropriate: decoupled services with async messaging
- ✓Defense in depth: security applied at every layer, not just the perimeter
- ✓Observability built in: structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics from day one
DevOps & Delivery Process
- ✓Trunk-based development with feature flags for progressive rollouts
- ✓CI/CD pipelines for every service: automated build, test, and deployment
- ✓Infrastructure as Code: all environments defined in Terraform or Pulumi
- ✓GitOps for Kubernetes: ArgoCD or Flux for declarative cluster management
- ✓Release gates: automated quality checks before every deployment to production
Security Lifecycle
- ✓Threat modelling at architecture phase, before a line of code is written
- ✓SAST and DAST in every pipeline: automated vulnerability scanning
- ✓Secrets management: Vault or cloud-native secrets — no hardcoded credentials, ever
- ✓Dependency scanning: automated alerts and patches for known CVEs
- ✓Penetration testing before every major release and quarterly for production systems
QA Framework
- ✓Test pyramid: unit → integration → end-to-end, with coverage targets enforced in CI
- ✓Contract testing for microservices: Pact or Spring Cloud Contract
- ✓Performance testing: load and stress tests run against production-equivalent environments
- ✓Chaos engineering: fault injection to validate resilience before production
- ✓Accessibility testing: WCAG 2.1 AA compliance automated in CI for all UIs
Release Management
- ✓Blue-green and canary deployments for zero-downtime releases
- ✓Feature flags: decouple deployment from release — code ships continuously, features activate on schedule
- ✓Rollback in under 5 minutes: every deployment has a tested, automated rollback path
- ✓Change advisory: production changes documented and reviewed before execution
- ✓Post-mortems for every P1 incident: blameless, action-oriented, published internally
Engineering Governance
- ✓Architecture Decision Records (ADRs): every significant decision is documented with context and consequences
- ✓Code review: minimum two senior approvals for production-path changes
- ✓Technical debt tracking: debt items live in the backlog, not in untracked files
- ✓Documentation-as-code: API docs, runbooks, and architecture diagrams version-controlled alongside code
- ✓Quarterly engineering health reviews: metrics, debt, coverage, and security posture reviewed with stakeholders
Our Core Technology Stack
Chosen for production reliability, ecosystem maturity, and enterprise support — not trends.
Frontend
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind
Backend
Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET
Cloud
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes
Data & AI
Spark, dbt, Airflow, MLflow, LangChain
Databases
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB
DevOps
GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault
Observability
Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty
Security
Snyk, OWASP ZAP, Trivy, Checkov
Want to See These Standards in Practice?
Our CTO will walk you through how we apply these standards to your specific domain, technology stack, and compliance requirements.