Appendix
Major Incident Catalog — Lessons from Hundreds of Millions in Industry Damages
Appendix
Best-Practice Catalog — When in Doubt, Lean on These
Appendix
Anti-Pattern Catalog — Reverse Lookup Before You're Stuck
Case Studies
AI-Product Startup - Inference Cost and Data Setup Are Everything
Case Studies
Large-Enterprise Core - Design Holding Up Organizationally Over New Tech
Case Studies
Mobile-App Dedicated - Store Reviews and 2-OS Sync Practice
Case Studies
Public / Local-Government Systems - Government Cloud and Long-Term Operations
Case Studies
Small-Mid SaaS - Lean on Managed and Run with Few People
Case Studies
Personal / Startup - Composition Shippable in 1 Month Is Correct
Case Studies
Case Studies — Same Question, Different Answer by Scale and Phase
Solution Architecture
PoC Design - PoCs Ending With 'Sort of Worked' Are All Failures
Solution Architecture
Estimation and ROI - Pinpoint Estimates Are Mostly Lies
Solution Architecture
Non-Functional Requirements - 'Don't Stop' Has No Price Tag
Solution Architecture
Bridging Requirements to Design - Desk-Heard Requirements Are the Tip of the Iceberg
Solution Architecture
Solution Architecture Overview — Don't Hit With Tech, Hit With Numbers
Data Architecture
[Data Architecture] Data Store Selection - RDB-Centric + Use-Case-Specific
Data Architecture
[Data Architecture] ETL/ELT - Fivetran + dbt + DWH Is the Modern Standard
Data Architecture
[Data Architecture] Data Governance - A Foundation Curated as a Dictionary for AI
Data Architecture
[Data Architecture] Data Modeling - Schemas Readable by Both AI and Humans
Data Architecture
Data Architecture Overview — The Foundation for AI in Your Org