System Design

Purpose

Produce a design that is honest about its constraints: what it optimizes for, what it gives up, where it breaks, and what would have to change to take it further.

When to Use

• Designing a new service or a significant subsystem.
• Evaluating whether an existing design will hold at the next order of magnitude.
• Choosing between architectures (monolith, services, event-driven).
• Preparing a design review or an RFC.

Capabilities