PLATFORM
Unified Backend
Scalable Education Platform Backend
A production backend powering multiple education products through a unified API, shared data model, authentication layer, and asynchronous processing infrastructure.
Status
Active
Role
Backend Architect
Category
System Design
Platform
Server
Related
GateTogether, NeetCircle
Overview
A centralized production backend powering multiple education products, including GateTogether and NEET Circle, through a shared API and backend infrastructure. The platform provides common services for authentication, content and question management, practice workflows, and analytics while maintaining a unified data and service layer. Built with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, and asynchronous job processing, the architecture is designed to support multiple clients from a single backend while keeping product-specific functionality extensible.
System Architecture
Tech Stack
Technical Overview
Unified API Layer
A centralized Node.js backend exposes common APIs used across web and mobile applications, avoiding duplicated backend implementations across individual products.
Authentication & Authorization
Shared authentication and role-based access control provide a consistent security model across the platform.
PostgreSQL Data Layer
PostgreSQL serves as the primary persistent data store, with Prisma ORM providing typed database access and schema management.
Redis
Redis is used for low-latency data access and backend infrastructure components requiring fast in-memory operations.
Asynchronous Processing
BullMQ and Redis are used to move non-blocking workloads into background workers, keeping API requests responsive while allowing longer-running operations to execute asynchronously.
Multi-Product Architecture
GateTogether and NEET Circle share the same backend infrastructure, allowing common authentication, content, question-bank and analytics capabilities to evolve from a single codebase.
Roadmap
⭐ Overview
This project is part of the Unified Learning Platform ecosystem.