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ArchitectureApr 1, 202613 min read

Building a 15-Module Security Scanning API: Architecture Decisions

15 security scanners running concurrently against a single domain in under 60 seconds. Here's how ComplianceLayer's scanning architecture works — from asyncio.gather to the Postgres job queue to the scoring model.

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TopicsArchitectureAPI DesignPythonFastAPISecurity Scanning
On this page
  • The 15 Scan Modules (Plus Compliance Mapping)
  • Architecture Overview
  • Why Async Python
  • The Parallel Execution Model
  • Why a Postgres Queue Instead of Celery
  • The Scoring Model
  • Scaling the Worker Pool
  • Result Storage and Historical Data
  • The Middleware Stack
  • What I Would Do Differently
  • Try It
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