System Design
Design software systems around real workflows, state transitions, data boundaries, APIs, failure modes, and operational constraints.
What is this?
System design translates product requirements into a model of components, workflows, data, interfaces, states, dependencies, and operational behavior.
Who is it for?
Teams building products where increasing workflow complexity requires more deliberate decisions about how the system should behave and evolve.
What problem does it solve?
It gives teams a structured way to reason about complex systems before implementation becomes expensive to change.
How does it work?
We model the domain, identify important states and transitions, establish data ownership, define service boundaries, design interfaces, and consider failure and operational behavior.
Why choose Strix?
Strix focuses on system design that can be translated into implementation. The output should help engineers make decisions rather than becoming architecture documentation that is disconnected from the codebase.
Evidence from Strix work
System-first engineering
Strix's engineering model begins by understanding workflows and system boundaries before choosing implementation details.
Operational product architecture
Existing operational systems require explicit modeling of states, events, synchronization, roles, and visibility.
Start with the system
Bring the real constraints into the room.
Share what you are building, where the current system is getting in the way, and what a useful next step would look like.
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