From POC to production: 9 architecture components your vibe-coded app needs.

AI can build POC/MVP.

But architecture makes it work in the real world.

LLMs make coding easy.

But without proper architecture:

• Systems crash under load

• Features break other features

• Slow pages = lost revenue

• Failures are not retried

• One failure takes everything down

Demos are easy. Systems are hard.

The good news? You can prompt AI to add these components too.

Here are the 9 components every modern product needs to scale:

1. Object Storage — Store and serve files at scale

2. CDN — Fast content delivery worldwide

3. Application Cache — Millisecond reads from memory

4. Queue — Do work later so users don’t wait

5. Load Balancer — Spread traffic across servers

6. Scheduler — Automate recurring tasks

7. Containers + Orchestration — Scale and self-heal automatically

8. API Gateway — One secure entry to all services

9. Pub-Sub — 1 event triggers many reactions

Swipe the carousel to see what each component does, when to use it, and the tech stack options.

Before you ship, ask yourself:

• Does slow work run in a queue?

• Can you survive a server failure?

• Are global users loading content fast?

AI can code. Architecture makes it real.

What component do you wish you’d added earlier? Drop it below.

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