Architecture patterns

The framing to internalise before any of the content: patterns are vocabulary, not virtue. You get points for naming the pattern a design already implies, for using a shared name to speed up a conversation, and for knowing when a pattern is overkill. You lose points for pattern-driven design. Interviewers at this level are often testing for restraint, not for the catalog.

This chapter also carries the org-design vocabulary, because at staff and lead level architecture and org structure are the same conversation. Conway's law runs both directions, and the inverse Conway maneuver is the tool.

What this chapter covers

Source: §29, §31, §35, §42.