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#113 - Architecture Decision Record (ADR) - Michael Keeling

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The Dangers of Not Capturing Design Rationale

I know that some companies practice this ivory tower architecture and things like that. But there are also aspects where some teams, most likely in the startups, they don't actually capture those design decisions. So getting back to code for teams who haven't reported design rationale, who haven't kind of written down really any documentation at all,. That's what we end up seeing a lot of, right? You can recreate the structure, you can see the fence, but you have no idea why it's there or how it's safe to change.

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