Backbone

Bootstrap like a much larger engineering organization.
Enterprise foundations. Startup speed.

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

#vibecoding doesn't fail because #ai can't code.

It fails because a blank canvas forces it to invent architectural capabilities - security, scalability - from scratch.

Give it an #architecture baseline, and it just follows it.

https://t.co/lRTmAYKy1y

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

Cut Quarkus CI build/test time in half on GH Actions free runners - no self-hosted or bigger runners, no paid caching.

Tune Quarkus to avoid repeated augmentation, application boots, and unnecessary infrastructure.

Before/after logs: https://t.co/KoFx5mbTOW

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@YouthXOfficia Hi. You have grand plans. Like it. We should talk and I can advise + help.

I am 25 years experienced software/platform engineer incl Amazon + 1 successful startup exit

https://t.co/jPIrbHWV60

https://t.co/aob0XpHMMB

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@danielkleach Backbone https://t.co/2oryItiaMC

Just launched - current users 0

Seeded SaaS founders, startups and incubators who want to skip months of undifferentiated engineering to focus on their product. Who want Year 3 operational maturity on Day 1 and published scale and security.

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

Hey @launch_llama 🦙 just dropped Backbone on the platform. Year 3 operational maturity on Day 1 for greenfield #saas. Like cheating but totally legal.

Retweet it so other founders can skip the 3-year existential crisis. 👇 https://t.co/2oryItiaMC

https://t.co/rGiqoyuBMX

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@lightsilver323 https://t.co/jPIrbHWV60 Year 3 operational maturity on Day 1.

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@lightsilver323 https://t.co/jPIrbHWV60 Happy to give you a live (AWS) demo @lightsilver323 if you have 20 mins sometime?

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@lightsilver323 https://t.co/jPIrbHWV60

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@lightsilver323 https://t.co/jPIrbHWV60

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

Hi @cra

Would you mind taking another look at my CNCF Landscape PR please https://t.co/qYvqAi4VbS

Backbone is a commercial platform, in development 18 months, extensive docs at https://t.co/zf7qPByvA2, and is priced at $15k+/year.

Grateful if you have specific questions! Thx

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

🚀 Backbone just launched on @KLaunchHQ

For early adopters: 1 year free licence + hands-on Fractional CTO consulting for select teams.

https://t.co/jPIrbHWV60

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

For 25 years we've been obsessed with shifting left.

CI → CD → DevOps → DevSecOps → AI.

But what if we've been optimising the wrong axis?

Maybe the next shift isn't left.

Maybe it's down.

https://t.co/WJYTg02WqZ

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

I've spent years fighting AWS architecture diagrams.

https://t.co/dnaSJMr6tL, cdk-dia, cdk2d2, CFN graphs... none produced publishable diagrams.

AI finally did.

The trick wasn't diagramming infrastructure - it was understanding architectural intent.

https://t.co/5LPqY5di9I

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

AMP remote write returning HTTP 400s?

Before debugging SigV4 or your encoder, check:

AWS/Prometheus → DiscardedSamples

That metric led us straight to the root cause.

https://t.co/tq7bXJZzzY

#AWS #Prometheus #Observability #ECS

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

Every successful software company eventually builds 2 products.

1️⃣ The one customers buy.

2️⃣ The engineering foundations that enable it - auth, monitoring, security, audit, pipelines...

Most teams never plan for the second one.

Some thoughts on why 👇

https://t.co/evNtlKu3mf

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

"What 'production-ready' actually means - and why most teams discover it too late." by @_get_forge #DEVCommunity

https://t.co/7Yia0AqNdc

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

I’ve repeatedly seen teams spend enormous effort rebuilding the same foundations: auth, audit, observability, deployment pipelines, security controls etc. I'd guesstimate up to 60% of engineering can be focused on non-domain features or differentiators https://t.co/N46QNuooxt

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Going fully remote was nice, but the real benefit was in going fully asynchronous. Here are a list of the benefits we've seen at @Gumroad:

A thread 👇🏽

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

@scottwambler It’s a shame but I think you’re correct @scottwambler. Too often the governance does not come from an IT authority (by which I mean Engineer I guess)

[Backbone @_backbonehq]

The documented explanations I've found aren't always the clearest, so for anyone else who prefers a visual explanation of the differences between AWS dedicated tenancy types this video pretty much nails it https://t.co/0jcx5l1XVk #aws #ec2 #awssecurityspecialty