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Architecture decisions are often framed as purely technical. In practice, the ones that matter most are product decisions wearing a technical costume: what should be easy to change, what should be hard to get wrong, and where the business wants to move fast next.
Start from the change you expect
Good architecture makes the likely changes cheap and the dangerous changes deliberate. That means knowing the product’s direction well enough to place the seams in the right spots.
Optimise for the team, not the diagram
A clean diagram that a team can’t own is worse than a slightly messy one they can. The delivery model is part of the architecture.
The takeaway
Treat architecture as a means to a product end, and revisit it as the product’s needs change.