system-architecture

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) captures system design trade-offs by documenting options, rationale, and consequences. This approach ensures architecture decisions remain traceable and reproducible for consistent project evolution and governance.

Document architecture decisions for a microservices refactor by applying ADR patterns that generate decision criteria, templates, and traceable consequences. This systematically captures the rationale behind your trade-offs and pattern selection.

Use ADRs for system design governance when you need to capture architecture decisions with documented rationale. They are suitable for new system designs, refactors, and policy-driven governance across monolith, modular monolith, and microservices contexts.

The best way to compare monolith, modular monolith, and microservices architectures is using a trade-off analysis framework. This systematically evaluates approaches with explicit decision criteria to determine the optimal system design.

Yes, you can use ADR templates to standardize architecture documentation across projects. This provides documentation discipline through checklists that ensure architecture decisions are traceable, reproducible, and suitable for archival.

Yes, this approach works for capturing design pattern selection rationale by applying ADR patterns. It documents the trade-offs and consequences of pattern selection, making the architecture decisions traceable for future reference.