Architecture

Multi-Tenant Clean Architecture Backend

Backend Architect

This is the core backend architecture case study: maintainable boundaries, auditability, extensibility, and production-grade .NET delivery.

Multi-Tenant Clean Architecture Backend system visual

Problem and Context

  • A multi-tenant product needed strict tenant isolation while preserving a shared architecture model.
  • Governance workflows required auditable changes and metadata-driven API surfaces for varied modules.

Built

  • Tenant-aware base entities, soft delete, history tracking, and domain-event dispatch.
  • Metadata-driven APIs for dynamic grids, schema discovery, enum discovery, and consistent envelopes.
  • Strategy-based corporate action engine for mergers, divestitures, JVs, and hierarchy changes.

Architecture

  • Clean Architecture boundaries with DI-only coupling.
  • Central MediatR behaviors and EF interceptors for cross-cutting concerns.
  • Cloud-ready abstractions for Azure SQL, Blob Storage, OpenAI, email, SMS, and geocoding.

Integrations

  • Azure SQL, Blob Storage, OpenAI, email, SMS, and geocoding adapters.
  • Metadata-driven APIs for dynamic grids and schema discovery.

Reliability, Security, and Operations

  • EF interceptors for audit/history/soft delete and domain-event dispatch.
  • NUnit/Testcontainers/Respawn coverage for persistence and transactional behavior.

Operations

  • GitHub Actions deployment to Azure App Service.
  • Warning-as-error builds and test suites with NUnit, Testcontainers, and Respawn.
  • Reusable transactional handlers and generated clients for delivery consistency.

Technology Stack

.NET 9Clean ArchitectureCQRS/MediatREF CoreAzure