Architecture Reviews and Common Failure Patterns

Know the Vocabulary

This lesson uses the terms below repeatedly, so read them once now and return here when a later section needs one.

• Architecture review: A structured examination that compares a running system's structure with its requirements and produces a ranked list of findings.
• Main requirement: The one measurable target a review is run to protect, such as a checkout p95 under 800 ms at the dinner peak.
• Finding: One problem a review records, with its evidence, its effect on the main requirement and its cost to fix.