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Architectural Drift and How Decisions Age

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/architecture/semester-07-architecture-ddd/module-05-architecture-decision-records-reviews/concepts/cluster-05-architecture-decisions-over-time/14-architectural-drift-and-how-decisions-age-primary.md
  • App: architecture
  • Semester: semester-07-architecture-ddd
  • Module: module-05-architecture-decision-records-reviews
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Architectural Drift and How Decisions Age as part of an architecture feedback loop involving decisions, review, and long-term consequences.
  • Use Architectural Drift and How Decisions Age to make architecture work inspectable: what was decided, why, what risks remain, and how success will be measured.
  • Use fundamentals-of-software-architecture, just-enough-software-architecture to connect the learner explanation to ADRs, review methods, and architectural fitness functions.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort with architecture tradeoffs, modular patterns, DDD boundaries, and API design decisions from the earlier semester modules.

Source books​

  • fundamentals-of-software-architecture
  • just-enough-software-architecture

Source routes​

Fundamentals Of Software Architecture​

Just Enough Software Architecture​

Supporting curriculum routes​

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

External enrichment​

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Architectural Drift and How Decisions Age, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.