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The industry uses these words loosely, often interchangeably. This course pins each one to a fixed meaning, and every lesson uses the word only in the sense given here.
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An architecture decision record: one decision, its context, and its consequences, kept as a dated immutable entry.
How a chosen solution will be built. Assumes the problem is already agreed.
Amazon's working-backwards artifact: the future press release plus the FAQ, written before the code.
What is broken or missing, and for whom — written with no solution named.
A proposal circulated for comment before commitment, so that disagreement surfaces while it is still cheap.
Every claim on these pages links to its source. If a source looks wrong or out of date, check the resource list and tell your teaching agent — the course is meant to be corrected.