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2026-08-29
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Engineering Process
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Architecture Decisions — Telling Apart What You Can Undo From What You Cannot
How to separate the design decisions you can cheaply reverse from the ones you can never take back. Measuring reversibility, writing ADRs that record what you gave up, and a template for putting trade-offs into words — from first principles.