The Architecture That Got You to 1k Users Will Kill You at 100k Users
The Architecture That Got You to 1k Users Will Kill You at 100k Users Congratulations. You launched your startup, you ground out your first 1,000 B...
Jun 3, 20264 min read
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Vivek Mishra
Founder & Lead Architect
Vivek Mishra is the founder and lead architect at ERPStack. He designs and ships custom ERP systems and B2B platforms end to end — PostgreSQL schemas, Next.js application layers, and the SOC 2-ready delivery pipelines that carry them to production. Every architecture on this site is his work.
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Custom ERP DevelopmentNext.jsSystems ArchitectureSOC2 ComplianceHIPAA
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The Architecture That Got You to 1k Users Will Kill You at 100k Users
The Architecture That Got You to 1k Users Will Kill You at 100k Users Congratulations. You launched your startup, you ground out your first 1,000 B...
Jun 3, 20267 min read
SEO is Dead (Unless You Are Using React Server Components)
SEO is Dead (Unless You Are Using React Server Components) Marketing teams at enterprise SaaS companies love to spend money on SEO agencies. They b...
Jun 1, 20264 min read
SEO is Dead (Unless You Are Using React Server Components in 2026)
SEO is Dead (Unless You Are Using React Server Components in 2026) Marketing teams at enterprise SaaS companies love to spend millions of dollars o...
Jun 1, 20268 min read
Odoo vs Custom Build: The Executive Trap of 2026
Odoo vs Custom Build: The Executive Trap of 2026 I sit in a lot of boardrooms with executives who think they have found a brilliant loophole in the...
May 31, 20264 min read
The Python Monolith Trap: Odoo vs. Custom Next.js Architecture in 2026
The Python Monolith Trap: Odoo vs. Custom Next.js Architecture in 2026 There is a terrifying phrase whispered in the boardrooms of mid-market compa...
May 31, 20268 min read
The Amazon Supply Chain Secret: Why They Don't Use Monoliths (And You Shouldn't Either)
The Amazon Supply Chain Secret: Why They Don't Use Monoliths (And You Shouldn't Either) Look at the supply chain logistics of Amazon, Walmart, or F...
May 30, 20263 min read
The Amazon Supply Chain Secret: Why They Don't Use Monoliths (And You Shouldn't Either in 2026)
The Amazon Supply Chain Secret: Why They Don't Use Monoliths (And You Shouldn't Either in 2026) If you walk into the distribution center of a mid-m...
May 30, 20269 min read
The HealthTech Real-Time Crisis: Why Your WebSockets Are Federal Violations in 2026
The HealthTech Real-Time Crisis: Why Your WebSockets Are Federal Violations in 2026 The allure of real-time data is intoxicating for product manage...
May 29, 202610 min read
The WebSocket HIPAA Trap: Why Your Real-Time Health App is Illegal
The WebSocket HIPAA Trap: Why Your Real-Time Health App is Illegal There is a very cool feature that every HealthTech startup wants to build: Real-...
May 29, 20264 min read
Why CFOs Are Demanding Custom ERPs (And Firing CIOs Who Buy NetSuite)
Why CFOs Are Demanding Custom ERPs (And Firing CIOs Who Buy NetSuite) The power dynamic in enterprise software procurement has shifted entirely in...
May 28, 20264 min read
The CFO Rebellion: Why NetSuite is a Fireable Offense (And the Financial Math of Custom ERPs)
The CFO Rebellion: Why NetSuite is a Fireable Offense (And the Financial Math of Custom ERPs) The power dynamic in enterprise software procurement...
May 28, 202610 min read
The Mult-Tenant Data Sovereignty Crisis of 2026 (Are You Breaking the Law?)
The Mult-Tenant Data Sovereignty Crisis of 2026 (Are You Breaking the Law?) Let’s play a dangerous game. Go ask your lead backend engineer this que...
May 27, 20264 min read
The Multi-Tenant Data Sovereignty Crisis of 2026: Why Your SaaS is Geopolitically Illegal
The Multi-Tenant Data Sovereignty Crisis of 2026: Why Your SaaS is Geopolitically Illegal Let’s play a dangerous game. Walk into the office of your...
May 27, 202610 min read
Stop Guessing: Real Edge Middleware Performance Benchmarks (2026)
Stop Guessing: Real Edge Middleware Performance Benchmarks (2026) Everyone in the serverless ecosystem lies about latency. The cloud providers wil...
May 26, 20264 min read
Exposing the Edge: Real-World Vercel Middleware Latency Benchmarks for 2026
Exposing the Edge: Real-World Vercel Middleware Latency Benchmarks for 2026 If you read the marketing material from cloud providers in 2026, you wo...
May 26, 20268 min read
Migrating to Next.js 16: Why Your Codebase is Going to Break (And How to Fix It)
Migrating to Next.js 16: Why Your Codebase is Going to Break (And How to Fix It) Next.js 16 is here, and it is glorious. It fully embraces the Reac...
May 25, 20264 min read
The Next.js 16 Migration Apocalypse: Why Your Enterprise Architecture is About to Break
The Next.js 16 Migration Apocalypse: Why Your Enterprise Architecture is About to Break Every few years, a framework release fundamentally breaks t...
May 25, 202611 min read
The End of Typing: If You Aren't Using AI to Build Your Custom ERP, You Are Lighting Money on Fire
The End of Typing: If You Aren't Using AI to Build Your Custom ERP, You Are Lighting Money on Fire Let me tell you a secret that traditional, massi...
May 23, 20268 min read
If You Aren't Using Copilot to Build Your ERP, You Are Lighting Money on Fire
If You Aren't Using Copilot to Build Your ERP, You Are Lighting Money on Fire Let me tell you a secret that traditional software development agenci...
May 23, 20264 min read
Reference architectures
- Real-Time Fraud Detection PlatformCybersecurity / FinTech — sub-0.1% false-positive risk scoring
- Field Operations & Compliance PortalNon-profit / NGO — 70+ collections, 12 modules
- Public-Health Data DashboardGovernment / Healthcare — React + AWS deployment
Technical Standards & Development Philosophy
I believe that corporate software infrastructure should be treated as a high-yield capital asset, not an operational expense. My engineering lifecycle is governed by three non-negotiable principles:
Zero-Any Type Safety
We enforce strict type-narrowing across transaction boundaries. No type assertions, casting, or raw 'any' types are permitted in production builds, guaranteeing that compile-time checks catch runtime discrepancies.
Stateless Edge Compute
Applications are designed around React Server Components (RSC) to minimize client bundle overhead. Edge middleware intercepts routing paths to implement authentication checks under 5ms worldwide.
Relational Predictability
We model data using clean, indexed SQL entities under Drizzle ORM. Database segregation is handled via schema-level isolation policies to ensure data residency and simple scaling under connection pooling.
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