Architecture is not a diagram.
Archipel Labs builds systems instead of describing them: a simulated e-commerce company, live around the clock, real down to the details that overviews leave out.
FIG. THE INTEGRATION, AS SOLD
FIG. THE SAME INTEGRATION, AS BUILT
The lab
Experiments in the open
One long-running flagship, a simulated company observed end to end, with outer islands exploring specific integration topics. Everything lives on GitHub.
TimberWorks · The simulated company
An e-commerce company that runs around the clock (storefront, tracking, orders, then suppliers and analytics), growing more complex over time so that architectural patterns can be explained by observation rather than abstract classification.
ServiceNow → Ansible
Governed IT automation: auto-remediation, self-service and change execution driven from ServiceNow, run against a simulated enterprise estate.
Blog
Notes from the field
The life of the lab, with regular detours into theory.
Introducing Archipel Labs
Why a public laboratory for enterprise architecture, and how observing a simulated company beats explaining architecture from above.
How Archipel Labs is developed
PrestaShop, Matomo, Redis Streams and Playwright browsers: the real stack behind TimberWorks, and its catalog of Minecraft items.
Services
Architecture, hands-on
Consulting built on field experience.
Audits that end in action
Scoping & target architecture
Integration & automation
Development platforms
Loïc Veyssière
I build Archipel Labs, and I help teams with the same problems the lab explores, on their real systems.
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