Backbone gives funded SaaS teams Year 3 operational maturity immediately — forked into your own AWS account in about two days, for a fraction of what building it yourself costs.
Backbone consists of the following discrete repositories:
| Repository | Visibility | Description |
|---|---|---|
| backbone-kit | Public | Infrastructure components for Quarkus services: rate limiting, metrics, health checks. |
backbone-core | Private | Platform maturity that normally only emerges after several years of operational iteration. |
backbone-platform | Private | A filtered mirror of backbone-core that clients will fork, own and run with a licence. |
| backbone-docs | Public | This public documentation repository. |
Backbone provides the following:
- A development environment built on free tier Floci that emulates AWS in full and spins up in seconds.
- An entire GitHub Actions pipeline which includes release automation; ECS deployments (diffed services only); infrastructure deployments (CDK); static code analysis (OWASP, SpotBugs, etc); code coverage, unit/integration test reports, and more.
- Full IaC support and repeatable automation for AWS environments, including thoughtful segregation of stateful vs stateless resources (FinOps).
- A clean, well-documented, and well-tested codebase that you can fork and modify.
- A stateless reference web application that you can deploy locally and to AWS and use immediately.
- The following foundational services provide the base for you to build domain services (e.g. search, quote, booking, etc.):
- actor-service; canonical user profile and identity-linked domain data
- audit-service; immutable event and action trail for compliance and observability
- auth-service; JWT issuance, validation, and user/service authentication workflows
- document-service; document metadata, storage orchestration, and retrieval APIs
- notification-service; template-driven outbound messaging and delivery orchestration
- The following edge services that provide client-facing composition and delivery layers:
- backend-actor; BFF orchestration tier
- backend-web; disposable reference UI and consumable frontend
- Comprehensive Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards for observability.
For more detailed information, check out the Backbone website and the docs.