How Senior Engineers Make Architecture Tradeoffs

Architecture decisions are rarely about finding the 'correct' answer — they're about naming the tradeoff clearly enough that the team can own it.

Draft — full write-up coming soon.

This piece will cover how I structure architecture decisions and RFCs: stating the constraint being optimized for, listing the alternatives that were seriously considered (and why they were set aside), and writing down the tradeoff being accepted — not just the decision — so the reasoning is still legible a year later.