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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Request for CommentsFault IsolationGolden Path
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Engineering Golden Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-180 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-20 Reviewer | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | EngineeringProductivityGovernance |