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Flora Brandão for Upsun

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Full-stack architectural choices for 2026 🛠️

Managing the seams between a frontend platform and separate marketplace providers for your backend often leads to fragmented governance and inconsistent review environments.

  • Use a single declarative configuration file to define your entire stack
  • Deploy frontend and backend services together on one platform
  • Create byte-for-byte clones of production for every pull request
  • Maintain a uniform compliance posture across all environments and services
  • Keep your infrastructure definitions in Git for a transparent audit trail

Treating your application as a single unit simplifies compliance and eliminates the gap between code and data during review.

Check out the full breakdown to see which approach matches your project's roadmap.

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