Event-Driven Notification Platform

Solution Architecture v1.0 · Data & AI Global Practice · 2026-08 · 26 views · open-source stack

A multi-tenant platform that accepts business events from any internal producer and decides what to notify, to whom, on which channel and when — then composes, dispatches and tracks the result across six channels. Producers publish facts; they know nothing about templates, channels or providers.

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  1. 01
    System Context

    Who publishes events, who receives notifications, and where the platform boundary sits.

  2. 02
    High-Level Architecture

    The shape of the platform in one picture, for the reader who will see only one.

  3. 03
    Layered Architecture

    What depends on what, and the single dependency that points the wrong way.

  4. 04
    Container and Component Architecture

    Every deployable unit, its technology, its replica floor, and the protocol on every hop.

  5. 05
    Integration and Interface Catalogue

    Every way something enters or leaves the platform, with protocol, cadence and owner.

  6. 06
    Channel Abstraction

    The five-step contract every channel implements, and what differs between them.

  7. 07
    Template and Content Lifecycle

    How a message goes from draft to published, and how a bad one is taken back.

  8. 08
    Multi-Tenancy and Noisy-Neighbour Control

    What every tenant shares, what each one gets alone, and what stops one from hurting the rest.

  9. 09
    Data Flow

    Where data comes from, what it becomes at each stage, and the one stage where PII appears.

  10. 10
    Event Topology and Priority Tiers

    Which topics exist, why three tiers, how ordering is guaranteed, and how a stuck message gets out.

  11. 11
    Data Architecture and Retention

    What is authoritative, what is rebuildable, and how long each thing lives.

  12. 12
    Core Data Model

    The entities a decision reads and writes, and how they join.

  13. 14
    Notification Orchestration

    The seven questions asked of every event, in order, and what happens when the answer is no.

  14. 15
    Event to Delivered Email

    The happy path end to end, with the latency budget at each hop.

  15. 16
    Timing, Scheduling and Digests

    Six ways a notification can be timed, and the one due-work stream they all converge on.

  16. 17
    Retry, Failover and Dead-Lettering

    What happens when a provider says no, and how a message that cannot be sent stays recoverable.

  17. 18
    Deployment and Failure Domains

    What runs where, what survives a zone loss, and what a region loss actually costs.

  18. 19
    Delivery Pipeline and Environments

    How a change reaches production, and what stops a bad one.

  19. 20
    Autoscaling, Capacity and Backpressure

    What each tier scales on, where scaling stops, and what the platform does once it has stopped.

  20. 21
    Observability and Operations

    Every signal, where it goes, and how a support engineer answers the question in one place.

  21. 22
    Administration and Operations Surface

    What an operator can do, who may do it, and which actions are dangerous enough to gate.

  22. 23
    The Operator Loop

    How an alert becomes an answer, a fix and a clean backlog, without leaving a gap.

  23. 24
    Security Architecture — Trust Zones

    Where the boundaries are, what crosses them, and where an attacker actually arrives.

  24. 25
    Identity and Access — Producer Authentication

    How a producing workload proves who it is without ever holding a long-lived secret.

  25. 26
    Failure Modes and Disaster Recovery

    Everything that can break, what covers it, and the one trade-off deliberately accepted.

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