Technical Architecture & Scalability Planning

Built to Scale. Engineered to Last.

Great products don’t just work today. They’re designed to grow, evolve, and perform under pressure. Our Technical Architecture & Scalability Planning service ensures your platform is built on strong foundations, ready to handle scale, complexity, and change.

About the Service

At Rocket Lab, we bring deep technical experience and a future-facing mindset to every system we design. This service is ideal for teams moving from MVP to scale, modernising legacy systems, or planning complex, multi-platform builds.

We dive deep into your product’s infrastructure needs, performance goals, and growth trajectory to design a technical blueprint that’s robust, efficient, and scalable. From cloud architecture to API design, we ensure your stack is lean, secure, and future-ready.

What We Use

Our approach is tech-agnostic but opinionated. We architect based on what best fits your needs—not what’s trendy.

  • Backend & Cloud Infrastructure: Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Azure, AWS, GCP, Vercel, Firebase
  • Microservices & APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Event-driven architecture
  • DevOps & Scalability: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Load balancing, Auto-scaling
  • Security & Compliance: OWASP best practices, audit logging, rate limiting, encryption-at-rest
  • Monitoring & Reliability: Sentry, Datadog, Prometheus, Health checks, SLA planning
Figma - Website & App Design, Development - Rocket Lab
Figma
NextJS - Website & App Design, Development - Rocket Lab
NextJS
GraphQL - Website & App Development - Rocket Lab
GraphQL
Typescript - Website & App Development / Developers - Rocket Lab
Typescript
Jest - Website & App Development / Developers - Rocket Lab
Jest

Our Step-by-Step Process

01

Platform & Growth Assessment

We review your current system (or plans) to understand scale goals, bottlenecks, and potential risks.

02

Requirements Mapping

Together, we define functional and non-functional requirements, performance, uptime, compliance, integrations.

03

Architecture Design

We architect the core system: infrastructure, database, APIs, microservices, security layers to ensure they are future-proof and scalable.

04

Tech Stack Validation

We assess trade-offs and validate tech choices against business goals and team capability. No overengineering, just smart decisions.

05

Scalability Planning

We define how the system will scale: horizontally, vertically, or via modular services. Includes load strategies and redundancy.

06

Documentation & Roadmap

We deliver clear documentation, diagrams, and a rollout plan. Everything your dev team needs to move fast with confidence.

Why Rocket Lab

We don’t believe in "just make it work."
We believe in making it work now and still work brilliantly at 10x scale.

  • We care deeply about reliability, uptime, and user experience.
  • We think clearly about complexity, choosing simplicity wherever possible.
  • We own the outcome with architecture built to deliver results, not headaches.
  • We move fast without cutting corners on the foundations.

Let’s architect something your product and team can grow on.

Results Backed by Experience

From funded startups to enterprise leaders, our clients share how we’ve helped them achieve their goals.

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When it comes to out-sourcing and partnering with a technology vendor, Rocket Lab is top of mind. 
Julien, Jen and the team are incredibly detailed and thorough whenever they’re engaged in a project. And, they do so at velocity. For Superloop, they have delivered some of the biggest, and highest profile projects that we have done in the last 12 months. I look forward to our continued relationship and what we can continue to achieve in the future.

Kim Janson
Head of Design, Sydney
Superloop

We had the pleasure of working with Rocket Lab team for the development and launch of the Lasoo.com.au website and app. With a tight launch timeline to comply with, Julien assigned 4 talented front end engineers with the appropriate skillsets to help us get both the app and website across the finish line on time. The guys worked together very well with our internal resources and blended into our process seamlessly. We were very impressed with the level of skill from each of the engineers, while their teamwork, professionalism and dedication was exceptional.

Mathew Paule
General Manager, Sydney
Lasoo.com.au

Rocket Lab's ability to help define and execute our business through software in a timely fashion, has been a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to work with. They guided us through the launch of our MVP and due to their expertise in developing web & app products, our business has been going from strength to strength!

Anthony Mazzei
Co-founder, Melbourne
Erin Living

Julien and his team are a real pleasure to work with. They are well rounded with a solid understanding of design/user experience best practices as well as diving deep under the hood with solid web and app development capabilities. Don't think twice about working with this super responsive crew of forward thinkers :)

Woj Kwasi
Founder, Adelaide
Kwasi.com

We have a long standing partnership with Rocket Lab who provide Webjet with critical strategic and development services for our front-end websites. The partnership has grown over the years and we are delighted with the innovation and output we continue to receive from the team.

David Galt
CEO, Melbourne
Webjet AU/NZ

Rocket Lab has been one of James Hardie’s digital partners for the past 12 years. This tenure is a testament of their customer centric approach, technical nous and all round ‘nothing’s a problem’ attitude. Over the years Rocket Lab have seamlessly integrated with James Hardie in delivering a number of key projects for the business that to this day continue to be critical to the success and functionality of our operations.

Luke Cheng
Customer Marketing Manager, Sydney
JamesHardie.com.au

Rocket Lab helped digitally transform our business by moving from our initial MVP website/platform built in India to a scalable website and architecture built on the latest JS tech stack. Our business has hundreds of suppliers and thousands of customers so we needed a highly robust structure and that’s exactly what was delivered by Julien, Jen and the RL development team. The bonus was that they were great to work with! We strongly recommend them for your web & app development needs.

Rocket Lab works with before you bid doing web & app development
Jordan & Rhys Rogers
Founders, Sydney
Beforeyoubuy.com.au

Aunty Grace has worked with RocketLab for several years, starting with the initial design and development of our website. Their team delivered a site that met our expectations, and they've continued to assist us in refining and enhancing it over time. They are dedicated, creative, and technically skilled, helping to ensure our website looks good and functions smoothly.

Jared Smith
Head of IT, Melbourne
Auntygrace.com.au

Our Clients

Quantaco
Superloop
Sven Jobs
Black Dog Institute
Thriday
Lasoo

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