stemedb/docs/operations/reference-architecture/README.md
jml 3e7eddc074 feat: add enterprise production readiness infrastructure
This commit implements comprehensive production hardening across multiple
layers to prepare StemeDB for enterprise pilot deployments:

## API Layer
- Add rate limiting middleware with configurable limits per endpoint
- Enhance error handling with detailed context and proper HTTP status codes
- Add security hardening tests for input validation and boundary conditions
- Create store_helpers module for defensive storage access patterns

## Storage & WAL
- Optimize group commit batching for higher throughput
- Add defensive error handling in hybrid backend with proper fallbacks
- Enhance WAL journal durability guarantees with fsync validation
- Improve index store query performance with better caching

## Operations & Deployment
- Add comprehensive operations documentation (deployment, monitoring, DR)
- Create systemd units for backup, WAL archival, and verification
- Add monitoring configs (Prometheus alerts, metrics exporters)
- Implement backup/restore scripts with verification and S3 archival
- Add DR drill automation and runbook procedures
- Create load balancer configs (nginx, envoy) with health checks

## Documentation
- Update CLAUDE.md with operations and troubleshooting guides
- Expand roadmap with production readiness milestones
- Add pilot success criteria and deployment reference architecture
- Document TLS setup, monitoring integration, and incident response

## Configuration
- Add .env.example with all required environment variables
- Document resource sizing for different deployment scales
- Add configuration examples for various deployment topologies

This positions StemeDB for successful enterprise pilots with proper
operational discipline, monitoring, backup/DR, and security hardening.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-12 06:08:15 +00:00

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# StemeDB Reference Architectures
**Choose the right deployment model** for your scale, availability requirements, and operational maturity.
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## Architecture Comparison
| Architecture | Target Use Case | Assertions | Queries/sec | Availability | RTO/RPO | Complexity |
|--------------|----------------|-----------|-------------|--------------|---------|------------|
| **[Single-Node Pilot](./single-node-pilot.md)** | PoC, friendly pilot, development | <10K | <100/sec | Single point of failure | 2hr / 24hr | Low |
| **[Three-Node Cluster](./three-node-cluster.md)** | Production, enterprise pilot | <100K | <1K/sec | Survives 1 node failure | 5min / 1min | ⭐⭐ Medium |
| **Enterprise Cluster** (Roadmap P6) | Large-scale production | >100K | >1K/sec | Survives 2 node failures | 1min / 10s | ⭐⭐⭐ High |
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## Quick Links
| Need to... | Go to |
|------------|-------|
| **Deploy first pilot** | [Single-Node Pilot](./single-node-pilot.md) |
| **Scale to production** | [Three-Node Cluster](./three-node-cluster.md) |
| **Configure networking** | [Network Requirements](./network-requirements.md) |
| **Size hardware** | [Resource Sizing](./resource-sizing.md) |
| **View architecture diagrams** | [Diagrams Directory](./diagrams/) |
---
## Decision Tree
```
What's your use case?
├─► Proof of concept / Friendly pilot
│ └─► [Single-Node Pilot](./single-node-pilot.md)
│ • Simplest deployment
│ • Manual recovery acceptable
│ • <10K assertions
│ • Deploy time: <2 hours
├─► Production deployment
│ └─► [Three-Node Cluster](./three-node-cluster.md)
│ • High availability (1 node failure)
│ • Automatic replication
│ • <100K assertions, <1K queries/sec
│ • Deploy time: <1 day
└─► Large-scale production
└─► Enterprise Cluster (Roadmap P6)
• Multi-region support
• Automatic failover
• >100K assertions, >1K queries/sec
• Requires enterprise support
```
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## Key Concepts
### RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
**How long until service is restored after failure?**
- **Single-Node:** 2 hours (manual restore from backup)
- **Three-Node:** 5 minutes (automatic failover to remaining nodes)
- **Enterprise:** 1 minute (multi-region automatic failover)
### RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
**How much data loss is acceptable?**
- **Single-Node:** 24 hours (daily backup schedule)
- **Three-Node:** 1 minute (real-time replication with replication factor 2)
- **Enterprise:** 10 seconds (multi-region replication)
### Replication Factor
**How many copies of each assertion?**
- **Single-Node:** 1 copy (no replication)
- **Three-Node:** 2 copies (survives 1 node loss)
- **Enterprise:** 3 copies (survives 2 node losses)
### Consistency Model
**All deployments use eventual consistency via CRDTs:**
- Writes accepted immediately (optimistic)
- Conflicts resolved at read-time via Lenses
- Replication lag typically <1s within cluster
- No distributed transactions or 2PC overhead
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## Architecture Principles
**All StemeDB architectures follow these principles:**
1. **Append-Only:** No overwrites, all history preserved
2. **Conflict-Free:** CRDTs for automatic merge without coordination
3. **Lens-Based Resolution:** Conflicts resolved at query time, not write time
4. **Content-Addressed:** Assertions identified by BLAKE3 hash, enabling Merkle sync
5. **Zero-Copy Serialization:** rkyv for minimal overhead
**See:** [Architecture Overview](../../../architecture.md) for full details.
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## Migration Paths
### Single-Node → Three-Node
**When to migrate:**
- Assertion count approaching 10K
- Query latency >1s sustained
- Need for high availability
- Production readiness validation complete
**Migration procedure:**
1. Provision 2 new nodes
2. Configure cluster on all 3 nodes
3. Restart single-node with cluster config
4. Trigger Merkle sync to replicate data
5. Update DNS/load balancer to point to cluster
**Estimated downtime:** 5-15 minutes for replication
**See:** [Add Node Runbook](../../runbooks/add-node.md#1-bootstrap-3-node-cluster) for detailed steps.
### Three-Node → Enterprise Cluster
**When to migrate:**
- Assertion count approaching 100K
- Query rate >1K/sec
- Need for multi-region deployment
- Compliance requirements for geo-redundancy
**Requires:** Enterprise support (Roadmap P6)
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## Deployment Checklist
**Before deploying ANY architecture:**
- [ ] **Production readiness verification passed**
- See: [UAT Production Readiness](../../../../uat/production-readiness/README.md)
- Minimum 84% CLI score required
- [ ] **Backup/restore tested**
- Validated backup script execution
- Tested restore roundtrip
- Documented recovery procedures
- [ ] **Network configuration complete**
- Firewall rules applied
- DNS records configured
- TLS certificates provisioned
- See: [Network Requirements](./network-requirements.md)
- [ ] **Monitoring set up**
- Prometheus scraping /metrics
- Grafana dashboards deployed
- Alerts configured (disk, latency, availability)
- [ ] **Runbooks reviewed**
- Team familiar with [7 operational runbooks](../../runbooks/)
- On-call rotation established
- Escalation paths documented
- [ ] **Pilot success criteria defined**
- See: [Pilot Success Criteria](../../pilot-success-criteria.md)
- Acceptance tests written
- Demo script prepared
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## Related Documentation
- [Operations Hub](../../README.md) - Main operations documentation
- [Deployment Examples](../../deployment/) - IaC configs (Docker Compose, Nginx, Envoy)
- [Operational Runbooks](../../runbooks/) - Incident response procedures
- [Pilot Success Criteria](../../pilot-success-criteria.md) - Validation checklist
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**Last Updated:** 2026-02-11