Bliki: Architecture Decision Record

An Architecture Decision Record is a short document that captures and explains a single decision relevant to a product or ecosystem. Documents should be short, just a couple of pages, and contain the decision, the context for making it, and significant ramifications. They should not be modified if the decision is changed, but linked to a superseding decision. A general rule is to follow an “inverted pyramid” style of writing, commonly associated with news stories. The key is to put the most important material at the start, and push details to later in the record. The common advice is to keep decision records in the source repository of the code base to which they apply. A common choice for their location is doc/adr . This way they are easily available to those working on the code base. For similar reasons they should be written in a lightweight markup language, such as markdown, so they can be easily read and diffed just like any code. We can use a build task to publish them to a produ