Architecture Specification 042

Technical Blueprint &
Scaling Strategy

A modern approach to full-stack reliability. Golit integrates the reactivity of Alpine.js, the hypermedia-driven flow of HTMX, and the high-performance async capabilities of Litestar.

System Architecture

TIER 01 web

Interactivity

Alpine.js handles the client-side micro-interactions and ephemeral state.

x-data="{ open: false }"

TIER 02 swap_horiz

Hypermedia

HTMX manages the seamless partial page updates without JSON overhead.

hx-post="/update" hx-target="#main"

TIER 03 terminal

Business Logic

Litestar provides high-speed, typed Python ASGI endpoints.

@get("/") async def index(): ...

Ephemeral State

Stored in DOM/RAM (Alpine.js). Toggles, form inputs, and modal states. Lost on refresh.

Committed State

The "Source of Truth" (PostgreSQL). Persistent records, user data, and financial transactions.

Derived State

Cached values (Redis). Session data, analytics aggregations, and computed UI fragments.

UI CONTEXT [EPHEMERAL]

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CORE DB [COMMITTED]

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database REDIS CACHE [DERIVED]

Scaling & Deployment

memory

Redis-First Scaling

Utilize Redis for session management and Pub/Sub events between Litestar workers. This allows for horizontal scaling across multiple containers without state fragmentation.

PUB/SUB LUA SCRIPTS STREAMS

Cloud Native

Native support for OCI-compliant containers and Kubernetes orchestration.

box

Edge-Ready

Global content delivery with optimized static asset pipelining.

Observability

Integrated Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing for the entire 3-tier stack.

deploy/docker-compose.yml

services:
  api:
    image: golit/litestar-app:latest
    environment:
      - REDIS_URL=redis://cache:6379/0
    depends_on:
      - cache
  
  cache:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    command: redis-server --save 60 1