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These engineering references explain how Vendale is designed, built, and recovered. They are maintained alongside the code so you can trace product scope to the underlying system.

Architecture

2,778 lines

How Vendale is built: the desktop shell, the backend, channels, workers, and the security decisions in between.

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API contract

1,755 lines

The typed service surface the desktop depends on, and the HTTP contract behind it.

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Database schema

1,005 lines

Tables, tenancy columns, and how multi-tenant isolation is expressed in the data model.

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Backup and recovery

251 lines

Snapshot schedules, off-machine copies, and the restore-validation procedure.

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Design language

64 lines

The Ink·Paper·Gold system: tokens, typography, and the rules every surface follows.

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What these documents are

These are the working documents of the project, not copies made for the website. Architecture decisions appear here with their reasoning, including past mistakes and how they were closed. They update with the code.