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Context and boundaries
Define users, systems, responsibilities, trust boundaries, dependencies, external actors, and what is out of scope.
Architecture standards
Architecture decisions connected to business consequence.
A practical architecture standard covering boundaries, integration, data, security, reliability, delivery, cost, and operational ownership.
What this means
Architecture is the set of hard-to-reverse decisions.
Algoza treats architecture as an ongoing decision discipline. The goal is not a diagram collection; it is shared understanding of important constraints, trade-offs, interfaces, risks, and ownership.
- Quality attributes stated explicitly
- Material trade-offs recorded
- Failure and recovery considered
- Architecture verified through delivery
Architecture decision areas
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Quality attributes
Make security, performance, availability, accessibility, maintainability, scalability, and recoverability testable enough to guide design.
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Data
Define ownership, meaning, lifecycle, quality, access, movement, retention, recovery, and consistency requirements.
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Integration
Make contracts, identity, compatibility, idempotency, timeouts, retries, failure paths, observability, and ownership explicit.
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Security and privacy
Model threats, privileges, sensitive information, secrets, audit needs, abuse paths, dependencies, and response obligations.
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Reliability and operations
Design for monitoring, capacity, failure isolation, recovery, deployment, rollback, support, and incident learning.
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Delivery
Keep the architecture incrementally buildable, testable, deployable, reviewable, and compatible with the delivery environment.
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Cost and sustainability
Consider build, licensing, infrastructure, support, change, data movement, migration, and exit costs.
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Evolution
Identify expected change, irreversible choices, deprecation routes, migration stages, and the conditions that trigger reconsideration.
Evidence standard
Architecture review produces decision support, not a guarantee that a system will never fail. Findings and recommendations are bounded by the information, access, time, scope, and validation available to the review.
Related assurance
Inspect the connected practices
Engineering overview
Return to the public engineering principles.
View detailsTechnology approach
How technologies are selected for the workload and long-term owner.
View detailsDevelopment standards
Source, review, testing, documentation, and release expectations.
View detailsQuality assurance
A risk-based quality model spanning discovery, delivery, and production.
View detailsBring the requirement and its constraints.
Algoza will clarify the evidence, controls, decisions, and delivery route appropriate to the engagement.