System Design & Architecture Standards
Priority: P0 (FOUNDATIONAL)
Architectural Principles
- •SoC: Divide into distinct sections per concern.
- •SSOT: One source, reference elsewhere.
- •Fail Fast: Fail visibly when errors occur.
- •Graceful Degradation: Core functional even if secondary fails.
Modularity & Coupling
- •High Cohesion: Related functionality in one module.
- •Loose Coupling: Use interfaces for communication.
- •DI: Inject dependencies, don't hardcode.
Common Patterns
- •Layered: Presentation → Logic → Data.
- •Event-Driven: Async communication between decoupled components.
- •Clean/Hexagonal: Core logic independent of frameworks.
- •Statelessness: Favor stateless for scaling/testing.
Distributed Systems
- •CAP: Trade-off Consistency/Availability/Partition tolerance.
- •Idempotency: Operations repeatable without side effects.
- •Circuit Breaker: Fail fast on failing services.
- •Eventual Consistency: Design for async data sync.
Documentation & Evolution
- •Design Docs: Write specs before major implementations.
- •Versioning: Version APIs/schemas for backward compatibility.
- •Extensibility: Use Strategy/Factory for future changes.