Recording Architectural Decisions

Introduce the architecture decision records (ADRs) to ensure transparent and well-documented decision-making throughout the development process.

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Moving to the implementation side, we now face decision-making issues on how this application will be developed. The decisions that we make will have lasting repercussions for a project, and over the life of the project, the motivations for why a decision was made can be lost.

Enter the architecture decision record. The most popular format for these records comes from Michael Nygard, who suggested the following format:

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