l3io-arch-review

An architecture review audits your existing design for compliance with engineering standards, checking for proper separation of concerns, testability, and dependency policies. It evaluates your system against established best practices to identify structural gaps.

Design guardrails are predefined architectural constraints applied to a new project to ensure best practices are considered from the outset. You need them when starting a new system to enforce separation of concerns, reuse, and design-by-contract early.

Apply engineering standards to decision-making by weighing technology options against established architectural criteria like testability and dependency policies. This records outcomes as Architecture Decision Records to maintain design documentation.

Yes, an architectural review requires module registration and configuration before applying the engineering standards. This setup ensures the design guardrails, logging policies, and documentation rules map correctly to your project.

The best way to ensure separation of concerns and testability is to apply engineering standards that enforce design-by-contract and strict dependency policies. This generates architectural guardrails that maintain these qualities throughout system design.