● THE BLUEPRINT — HOW VIGIL RUNS

Two processes. One datastore. No Redis, no broker, no accidental complexity — the full rationale ships in ARCHITECTURE.md, readable before you buy.

NEXT.JS 16 · TYPESCRIPT STRICT · POSTGRES 18 · DRIZZLE · PG-BOSS · DOCKER 135 TESTS · CI · MULTI-STAGE IMAGES

TIER 01
CLIENTS

Team browser

Public visitors

TIER 02
TWO PROCESSES

WebNEXT.JS 16

server actions + RBAC guards
dashboards · status pages (ISR)
↳ Anthropic API — optional

WorkerNODE 20

cron tick — every minute
fan-out · dedup · drift correction
→ HTTP checks on your endpoints

TIER 03
ONE DATASTORE

PostgreSQL 18DRIZZLE ORM · PG-BOSS

application data + job queue in one database — no Redis, no message broker, one thing to back up

02 FIRST BOOT

One command. Ten minutes.

The compose file boots Postgres, runs migrations, starts the worker and serves the app. Bare-metal works too — Node 20.9+, two processes, one database.

SEE WHAT BOOTS

TERMINAL — FIRST BOOT~10 MIN

$ git clone git@vigil/vigil.git && cd vigil

$ docker compose up

✓ postgres ready — :5432

✓ migrate schema up to date

✓ worker cron tick — queue live

✓ web ready — http://localhost:3000

vigil is awake. watching begins now_

03 THE DATA MODEL

Everything hangs off the organization.

Tenancy is structural, not bolted on — every table is scoped to an org, and isolation is covered by tests.

organization

HAS

member

OWNS

monitors

│ PRODUCES

monitor_checks

OWNS

incidents

│ TIMELINE

incident_events

HAS

status_pages

│ SHOWS

status_page_monitors

MONITORS OPEN INCIDENTS AUTOMATICALLY ON REPEATED FAILURE

04 THE MATH

You already know what these weeks cost.

Conservative estimates for one senior engineer building the same subsystems to the same standard — typed, tested, documented, hardened.

SUBSYSTEM

WHAT IT ACTUALLY INVOLVES

TIME

Auth + RBAC

Sessions, orgs, invitations, role matrix, guard chain, tenancy isolation tests

3 WKS

Monitoring engine

Queue, scheduling fairness, dedup, drift, SSRF guards, state caching

3 WKS

Incident system

State machine, timelines, auto open/resolve, notifications

2 WKS

Status pages

Public read models, uptime aggregation, cache strategy, leak review

1.5 WKS

AI features

Prompting, guardrails, rate limits, graceful degradation

1 WK

Tests, CI, Docker

135 tests, pipelines, images, architecture docs, seed tooling

3 WKS

Total

at $8–12k / month fully-loaded senior cost

≈ 13–14 WKS

Thirteen weeks of engineering, already debugged.

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