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Architecture Review Board (ARB) for Mission-Critical Web Platforms

Architecture Review Board (ARB) for Mission-Critical Web Platforms in Dubai

Stralya’s Architecture Review Board (ARB) is your independent technical guardian for high-stakes digital projects. We review, challenge, and secure your architecture so your web platform can scale with confidence – from Dubai to the world.

ARB scope and deliverables

What Stralya’s Architecture Review Board Covers

Our ARB is intentionally focused on what matters most for high-stakes web projects: robustness, scalability, and long-term maintainability. We do not drown you in theory – we provide concrete guidance that your engineers can apply immediately.

Core ARB deliverables

End-to-end review of your current or proposed architecture, including backend, frontend, data, and integrations.

Analysis of performance, reliability, and observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).

Cloud architecture assessment for AWS, Azure, or GCP with cost, resilience, and security considerations.

Review of CI/CD pipelines, release strategy, and environment setup (dev, staging, production).

Risk and gap analysis with prioritised recommendations and impact estimates.

Target architecture blueprint with diagrams, technology choices, and migration or implementation steps.

Executive-level summary for non-technical stakeholders, aligned with business objectives.

Technical Q&A and working sessions with your engineering team to ensure practical adoption.

Optional add-ons

Every ARB engagement is tailored to your context, but the objective is always the same: ensure that your architecture can support your strategic ambitions without compromising on reliability, security, or speed of delivery.

Key Outcomes of an ARB Engagement with Stralya

Clear architectural direction

Your leadership and engineering teams gain a shared, documented vision of where the platform is going and how to get there, reducing friction and misalignment.

Controlled technical risk

Critical risks are identified, quantified, and addressed before they become incidents, outages, or unmanageable technical debt.

Scalability with cost discipline

Your cloud architecture is designed to scale with demand while keeping costs under control, with a clear understanding of trade-offs and optimisation levers.

Improved security posture

Security is addressed at the architecture level, not as an afterthought, reducing exposure and supporting compliance with internal and external requirements.

Faster, safer delivery

With a solid architectural foundation and clear guidelines, your teams can ship features faster, with fewer regressions and more predictable release cycles.

How our Architecture Review Board operates

A Structured, Fixed-Price ARB Engagement – From Discovery to Governance

Our Architecture Review Board service is delivered as a structured, time-bound engagement that can be renewed or extended as your project evolves. Every ARB mission is led by senior cloud architects and principal engineers who have direct experience delivering and rescuing complex web platforms in demanding environments.

We keep the process transparent and predictable: clear scope, fixed price, and concrete deliverables that your team can immediately act on.

We start by understanding your business context, critical user journeys, regulatory constraints, and technical landscape. We meet with your CTO, product owners, and lead engineers to clarify what success looks like for your platform in the next 12–36 months.

We review your current or planned architecture diagrams, infrastructure setup, CI/CD pipelines, and representative sections of your codebase. We focus on scalability, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability, as well as alignment with cloud-native best practices.

We identify architectural risks and bottlenecks: single points of failure, security exposures, performance hotspots, technical debt, vendor lock-in, and missing observability. Each issue is prioritised by impact and likelihood, so you know what to address first.

We design or refine your target architecture: reference diagrams, technology choices, cloud services, data flows, and integration patterns. You receive a concise ARB report with concrete recommendations, trade-offs, and quick-win actions your team can execute.

We present our findings to your stakeholders, answer technical challenges from your team, and help you plan the implementation roadmap. On request, Stralya can stay on as an ongoing ARB member to review future changes, major releases, and new initiatives.

Find Commonly Asked Questions

Our ARB is designed for organisations running or planning mission-critical web platforms: scale-ups preparing for rapid growth, enterprises undergoing digital transformation, and governmental or semi-governmental entities with sensitive digital mandates. If failure, downtime, or security breaches are not an option, an independent architecture review is essential.

The ideal moment is before major architectural commitments are made – for example, before a full rebuild, a cloud migration, or a large-scale feature rollout. However, we are frequently called in during crisis situations: escalating incidents, spiralling cloud costs, or platforms that are difficult to maintain. In both cases, the ARB provides clarity and a concrete path forward.

You receive a structured ARB report that includes a summary of findings, a risk and gap analysis, recommended target architecture diagrams, prioritised actions, and implementation guidelines. We also run a live presentation and Q&A session with your leadership and technical teams to ensure alignment and adoption.

Yes. While the ARB is an independent review function, Stralya can take full ownership of implementing the recommended changes through a fixed-price project, or by providing senior engineers through selective staff augmentation. Many clients choose to keep us as both ARB and implementation partner to ensure continuity and accountability.

We work across modern cloud-native stacks on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Typical architectures include microservices, serverless, container-based workloads (Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, GKE), event-driven systems, and modular monoliths. On the application side, we are experienced with modern web frameworks and APIs used in high-traffic, data-intensive platforms.

Our ARB engagements are delivered on a fixed-price basis, scoped to your project size and complexity. You know the cost, timeline, and deliverables upfront. For organisations that require continuous governance, we can set up a recurring ARB model with a predictable monthly or quarterly fee.

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