Structure
Keep responsibilities and boundaries visible.
Production Ready
Foundations for real applications, with clear engineering boundaries and verifiable behavior—not a promise that every deployment decision is already solved.
Engineering path
Production readiness is a sequence of connected decisions, not a badge added at the end.
Keep responsibilities and boundaries visible.
Move environment-specific values outside code.
Apply authentication and authorization at explicit boundaries.
Reject invalid input before it reaches application state.
Use repeatable tests and documented checks.
Document runtime limits and deployment responsibilities.
Capabilities
Controllers, services, persistence, configuration, and security responsibilities remain discoverable.
Released foundations apply product-appropriate authentication, secret handling, and access boundaries.
Request and upload constraints are defined close to the boundary they protect.
Automated tests and task-oriented verification paths cover important product behavior.
Configuration, known limits, and application responsibilities are documented for deployment review.
Evidence
Production readiness should be visible in the repository before you build on top of it.
Concrete boundaries and verification paths you can inspect before adopting a foundation.
Inspect before adoptionExternal configuration and secret placeholders.
Validation and predictable API errors.
Product-appropriate security boundaries.
Automated verification and documented limitations.
Architecture and contribution guidance.
Questions
It means a foundation includes clear architecture, external configuration, security and validation boundaries, useful verification, and documented operational limits. The application still needs product-specific review and deployment decisions.
No. A foundation reduces repeated infrastructure work, but teams remain responsible for domain authorization, deployment, monitoring, backups, capacity planning, and other application-specific requirements.
Released foundations include product-appropriate automated tests and documented verification paths. Exact coverage and current limitations are described in each product and documentation area.
Choose your foundation
Start with one documented capability, review its boundary, and build the application-specific behavior on top.