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- git:20260320.d98f3cb, committed Mar 20, 2026
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- License
- MIT
Architectural style selection decision matrices, trade-off analysis, structural enforcement rules, and combination patterns. Load when choosing or evaluating architecture styles.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Architectural Styles: Selection and Trade-offs
## Style Selection Decision Tree
Start here. Answer the dominant driver, follow to recommended style.
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Is the domain complex with rich business rules?
YES -> Do you need infrastructure independence and high testability?
YES -> Hexagonal / Clean / Onion (functionally equivalent, different terminology)
NO -> Is the domain well-understood with clear module boundaries?
YES -> Modular Monolith (single deployment, structured boundaries)
NO -> Layered Architecture (simple, well-known, fast to start)
NO -> Is this a feature-heavy application with independent feature teams?
YES -> Vertical Slice (per-feature organization, CQRS-friendly)
NO -> Do you need independent deployment and scaling per capability?
YES -> Can the team handle distributed system operational complexity?
YES -> Microservices
NO -> Modular Monolith (extract to services later)
NO -> Is the primary concern async workflows or event-driven processing?
YES -> Event-Driven Architecture
NO -> Is this a data processing pipeline?
YES -> Pipe and Filter
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How to install
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-architectural-styles-tradeoffs@sha256:c7ea53f3af39669eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260320.d98f3cb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
nwave-ai/nwave · 633 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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