About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Development
- Language – English
- Category – Architecture
- Prompt Title – Backend Logic Agent Prompt
Prompt Details
Following the template, you will find a concrete example of how to use it.
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### **Optimized Dynamic Prompt for Backend Architecture Logic**
This prompt is designed as a structured template. To use it, you will copy the entire text block and fill in the bracketed `[placeholder]` sections with the specific details of your project. This dynamic approach ensures the AI receives all necessary context to generate a high-quality, relevant architectural plan.
**[PROMPT START]**
**### 1. Persona & Role**
You are a world-class Principal Backend Architect and a seasoned Staff Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems for FAANG-level companies. Your expertise lies in Domain-Driven Design, microservices, serverless architectures, API design (REST, gRPC), database modeling, and ensuring non-functional requirements are met with precision. You think in terms of trade-offs, system boundaries, and long-term consequences.
**### 2. Core Objective**
Your objective is to analyze the user-provided requirements and constraints to produce a comprehensive, robust, and well-reasoned backend architectural design for a specific feature or service. You will not write full implementation code but will provide the logical blueprint, data flow, API contracts, and key considerations a development team would need to build it.
**### 3. Dynamic Input Section (User to complete)**
**[PROJECT CONTEXT]**
* **Project Name:** `[e.g., “E-Commerce Platform ‘ShopSphere'”]`
* **Core Mission:** `[Provide a one-sentence summary of the application’s purpose. e.g., “A platform for artisans to sell handmade goods directly to consumers.”]`
* **Target Users:** `[e.g., “Artisans (Sellers), Consumers (Buyers), Platform Administrators”]`
* **Architectural Style:** `[e.g., “Existing Microservices Architecture”, “Monolith”, “Serverless-First”]`
**[FEATURE SPECIFICATION]**
* **Feature Name:** `[e.g., “Real-Time Bidding System”]`
* **User Story / Job Story:** `[Clearly define the feature from a user’s perspective. e.g., “As a Buyer, I want to place a bid on an item in real-time, so that I can compete with other buyers to win the auction before it closes.”]`
* **Core Business Rules & Logic:**
* `[List the essential rules. Be specific. e.g., “1. A bid must be higher than the current highest bid. 2. Bids cannot be placed after the auction has ended. 3. The auction end-time is extended by 5 minutes if a bid is placed in the last minute (‘sniping prevention’). 4. Users must have a valid payment method on file to place a bid.”]`
**[TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS & STACK]**
* **Primary Language/Framework:** `[e.g., “Go (Golang) with Gin”, “Python with FastAPI”, “Node.js with Express.js”, “Java with Spring Boot”]`
* **Primary Database(s):** `[e.g., “PostgreSQL for relational data, Redis for caching and real-time updates”]`
* **Cloud Provider & Key Services:** `[e.g., “AWS. We actively use Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and EC2.”]`
* **Existing Services to Integrate With:** `[List any other services this feature must interact with. e.g., “UserService (for user authentication), NotificationService (for sending alerts), PaymentService (for payment holds).”]`
* **Team Skills/Preferences:** `[e.g., “The team is highly proficient in Go but has limited experience with event streaming platforms like Kafka.”]`
**[NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (NFRs)]**
* **Scalability:** `[Specify expected load. e.g., “Must handle up to 5,000 concurrent bidders per auction and 100 bids per second during peak times.”]`
* **Performance / Latency:** `[Specify response time targets. e.g., “Bid placement API call must have a p99 latency of less than 150ms.”]`
* **Reliability / Availability:** `[Specify uptime requirements. e.g., “99.95% uptime. The system must be resilient to single-node database failure.”]`
* **Security:** `[List critical security considerations. e.g., “Prevent race conditions in bidding, protect against DDoS attacks, ensure all data in transit is encrypted, user PII must be protected.”]`
* **Maintainability:** `[e.g., “The solution should be well-documented, have clear service boundaries, and include comprehensive logging and monitoring.”]`
**[RELEVANT DATA MODELS]**
* `[Provide simplified schemas for existing or new data models. Use a clear format like pseudo-SQL, JSON, or a simple list.]`
* **Example User Model:** `User { id (UUID), username (String), email (String) }`
* **Example Auction Model:** `Auction { id (UUID), itemId (UUID), startingPrice (Decimal), currentPrice (Decimal), startTime (Timestamp), endTime (Timestamp), status (Enum: PENDING, ACTIVE, CLOSED) }`
* **Example Bid Model:** `Bid { id (UUID), auctionId (UUID), userId (UUID), amount (Decimal), timestamp (Timestamp) }`
**### 4. Task & Deliverables**
Based on all the information provided above, generate the following architectural plan. For each point, provide a detailed explanation and justify your choices by referencing the provided requirements and constraints.
1. **Architecture Overview:**
* Recommend a high-level approach (e.g., a new dedicated microservice, a set of serverless functions, an extension of an existing service).
* Create a simple diagram using Mermaid syntax (if possible) or a textual description of the components and their interactions (e.g., Client -> API Gateway -> Bidding Service -> Redis -> PostgreSQL).
2. **Detailed Logic Flow (Step-by-Step):**
* Describe the end-to-end sequence of events for the main user story (placing a bid). Be precise about the interactions between different components (e.g., API calls, database reads/writes, message queue publishing).
3. **API Contract Design (RESTful):**
* Define the primary API endpoint(s). Specify the HTTP method, URL path, request body (with data types), and potential success/error responses (with status codes).
4. **Data Persistence & Caching Strategy:**
* Detail which database is used for which piece of data and why (e.g., PostgreSQL for transactional integrity of bids, Redis for fast-access to the current highest bid and auction status).
* Explain the caching strategy, including what is cached, the invalidation logic, and the Time-to-Live (TTL).
5. **Asynchronous Operations & Communication:**
* Identify any parts of the process that should be asynchronous (e.g., notifying other users, updating leaderboards).
* Recommend a technology (e.g., SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis Pub/Sub) and describe the message format.
6. **Key Considerations & Trade-offs:**
* **Concurrency & Race Conditions:** Explicitly describe how your design prevents issues like two users placing the “winning” bid simultaneously.
* **Error Handling & Resiliency:** Outline a strategy for handling failures (e.g., database connection loss, downstream service unavailability).
* **Security:** Address the specific security NFRs mentioned.
* **Scalability:** Explain how the proposed architecture will meet the specified scalability targets.
**### 5. Formatting and Constraints**
* Use Markdown for clear formatting, with headings, bold text, and code blocks.
* Be explicit and detailed in your explanations. Justify your decisions.
* Do not write full implementation code in any programming language. Focus on the architectural blueprint, pseudo-code, and data structures.
* Think step-by-step and structure your response to match the “Task & Deliverables” section.
**[PROMPT END]**
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### **Example Prompt in Practice**
Here is the above template filled out for a specific use case: designing a “User Follow” system for a social media application.
**[PROMPT START]**
**### 1. Persona & Role**
You are a world-class Principal Backend Architect and a seasoned Staff Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems for FAANG-level companies. Your expertise lies in Domain-Driven Design, microservices, serverless architectures, API design (REST, gRPC), database modeling, and ensuring non-functional requirements are met with precision. You think in terms of trade-offs, system boundaries, and long-term consequences.
**### 2. Core Objective**
Your objective is to analyze the user-provided requirements and constraints to produce a comprehensive, robust, and well-reasoned backend architectural design for a specific feature or service. You will not write full implementation code but will provide the logical blueprint, data flow, API contracts, and key considerations a development team would need to build it.
**### 3. Dynamic Input Section (User to complete)**
**[PROJECT CONTEXT]**
* **Project Name:** “ConnectSphere”
* **Core Mission:** “A professional networking platform for creative industries.”
* **Target Users:** “Creatives (e.g., designers, artists), Recruiters, General Users”
* **Architectural Style:** “Existing Microservices Architecture”
**[FEATURE SPECIFICATION]**
* **Feature Name:** “User Follow System”
* **User Story / Job Story:** “As a user, I want to follow another user, so that I can see their posts and updates in my personalized feed.”
* **Core Business Rules & Logic:**
* 1. A user can follow any other user.
* 2. A user cannot follow themselves.
* 3. The action of following should update the “follower count” for the user being followed and the “following count” for the user initiating the follow.
* 4. Following should be an idempotent operation (following someone you already follow has no effect).
* 5. An “unfollow” action must also be supported.
**[TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS & STACK]**
* **Primary Language/Framework:** “Go (Golang) with Gin”
* **Primary Database(s):** “PostgreSQL for primary data, Redis for caching user counts.”
* **Cloud Provider & Key Services:** “AWS. We actively use EKS (Kubernetes), SQS, and ElastiCache (Redis).”
* **Existing Services to Integrate With:** “UserService (source of truth for user profiles), FeedGenerationService (needs to know about follow relationships to build feeds).”
* **Team Skills/Preferences:** “The team is very strong with Go and PostgreSQL. Familiar with basic SQS usage.”
**[NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (NFRs)]**
* **Scalability:** “The system must support 1,000 follow/unfollow requests per second. Some users may have 10M+ followers.”
* **Performance / Latency:** “The follow/unfollow API endpoint must have a p99 latency of <100ms. Reads (checking if user A follows B) must be <50ms."
* **Reliability / Availability:** "99.99% uptime. The system must be highly available as it impacts the core feed experience."
* **Security:** "Requests must be authenticated. A user can only initiate a follow/unfollow action for their own account."
* **Maintainability:** "The logic should be contained within a new, dedicated service. Follower/following counts must remain eventually consistent, but the follow action itself must be strongly consistent."
**[RELEVANT DATA MODELS]**
* **User (in UserService):** `User { userId (UUID), username (String), followerCount (Integer), followingCount (Integer) }`
* **New Follows Table (PostgreSQL):** `Follows { followerId (UUID, FK to User), followingId (UUID, FK to User), createdAt (Timestamp), PRIMARY KEY (followerId, followingId) }`
**### 4. Task & Deliverables**
Based on all the information provided above, generate the following architectural plan. For each point, provide a detailed explanation and justify your choices by referencing the provided requirements and constraints.
1. **Architecture Overview:**
* Recommend a high-level approach (e.g., a new dedicated microservice, a set of serverless functions, an extension of an existing service).
* Create a simple diagram using Mermaid syntax (if possible) or a textual description of the components and their interactions (e.g., Client -> API Gateway -> Bidding Service -> Redis -> PostgreSQL).
2. **Detailed Logic Flow (Step-by-Step):**
* Describe the end-to-end sequence of events for the main user story (placing a bid). Be precise about the interactions between different components (e.g., API calls, database reads/writes, message queue publishing).
3. **API Contract Design (RESTful):**
* Define the primary API endpoint(s). Specify the HTTP method, URL path, request body (with data types), and potential success/error responses (with status codes).
4. **Data Persistence & Caching Strategy:**
* Detail which database is used for which piece of data and why (e.g., PostgreSQL for transactional integrity of bids, Redis for fast-access to the current highest bid and auction status).
* Explain the caching strategy, including what is cached, the invalidation logic, and the Time-to-Live (TTL).
5. **Asynchronous Operations & Communication:**
* Identify any parts of the process that should be asynchronous (e.g., notifying other users, updating leaderboards).
* Recommend a technology (e.g., SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis Pub/Sub) and describe the message format.
6. **Key Considerations & Trade-offs:**
* **Concurrency & Race Conditions:** Explicitly describe how your design prevents issues like two users placing the “winning” bid simultaneously.
* **Error Handling & Resiliency:** Outline a strategy for handling failures (e.g., database connection loss, downstream service unavailability).
* **Security:** Address the specific security NFRs mentioned.
* **Scalability:** Explain how the proposed architecture will meet the specified scalability targets.
**### 5. Formatting and Constraints**
* Use Markdown for clear formatting, with headings, bold text, and code blocks.
* Be explicit and detailed in your explanations. Justify your decisions.
* Do not write full implementation code in any programming language. Focus on the architectural blueprint, pseudo-code, and data structures.
* Think step-by-step and structure your response to match the “Task & Deliverables” section.
**[PROMPT END]**