The Vinyl Vault

System Architecture

Groove Records has survived forty years selling vinyl from a dusty Brooklyn storefront — Maxine Torres opened it with a crate of records and a conviction that people still want to hold music in their hands. Now, with a warehouse of rare pressings and a cult following, she wants to take it online. You're the architect she's hired to build it right. The catalog is a mess of duplicates, customers want real-time stock alerts, EU regulators are watching, and Maxine's dream of live auctions for ultra-rare pressings won't survive a system that buckles under load.