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Documenting Architecture Decisions (cognitect.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by canpolat to c/experienced_devs

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I wonder if there are others using ADRs for documenting their decisions.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't seen mentioned in the post but there is a template for this here: https://github.com/adr/madr/

Also those things are pretty much mandatory when you write surgical or healthcare devices. They have weird names like SDD (detailed design) or SDS (detailed specifications). There is some info about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_description

[–] canpolat 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The post is what started the whole ADR wave in the industry (I think there was also a conference talk by him). https://adr.github.io/ has a list of resources (templates, articles, examples, tools, etc.).