Two processes. One datastore.

The full rationale ships in ARCHITECTURE.md, readable before you buy.

• Next.js 16 · TypeScript strict · Postgres 18 · Drizzle · pg-boss · Docker
• 4706 tests · CI · Multi-stage images

Tier 01 / Clients

• Team browser
• Public visitors

Tier 02 / Two processes

• Web NEXT.JS 16: server actions + RBAC guards; dashboards · status pages (ISR); Anthropic API, optional.
• Worker NODE 20.9+: cron tick, every minute; fan-out · dedup · adaptive scheduling; forty-two check types against your endpoints; a 500 ms plane beside it for the ones that need it; signed recovery triggers, verified; then runbooks, tasks and objectives on queues of their own.

Tier 03 / One datastore

PostgreSQL 18 DRIZZLE ORM · PG-BOSS

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

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

$ 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_

Illustrative output, the documented compose flow

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
├── RECOVERS VIA → recovery_actions
│   └── RECORDS → recovery_attempts
├── OWNS → incidents
│   └── TIMELINE → incident_events
└── HAS → status_pages
    └── SHOWS → status_page_monitors

Monitors open incidents on repeated failure, recovery fires, verifies, and every attempt stays on the books.

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.