Architecture Without Gatekeepers: Decoupling for Neutrality

by Marcin Gwóźdź

Open source only works if the community can contribute without hitting a wall. We realized our architecture at OpenEverest was unintentionally biased toward specific tools, so we rebuilt it. Marcin will share how we moved to a modular plugin system that decouples our core from specific operators. By supporting everything from Valkey to competing Postgres flavors, we've eliminated vendor lock-in and ensured the community — not the architecture — dictates the project's future.