Starlight Engineering Review

Purpose

Find architectural failure modes while the design is still cheap to change.

When it fires

• A change crosses process, network, repository, runtime, database, or trust boundaries.
• It changes schemas, migrations, authentication, permissions, money, or irreversible state.
• Reliability, scale, or backward compatibility is material.

Inputs

• Architecture and data-flow diagrams or equivalent source evidence.
• State model, API/schema contracts, dependencies, and deployment topology.
• Expected load, failure history, privacy classification, and recovery objectives.

Workflow