Patterns & reference

Decision Guides

When two approaches both look reasonable, these guides make the trade-off explicit.

Session vs. JWT for authentication

Statefulness, revocation, and blast radius.

In progress

Sync vs. async integration

Latency coupling vs. operational complexity.

In progress

Cache-aside vs. write-through

Consistency vs. read latency.

In progress

Orchestration vs. choreography

Central control vs. autonomy.

In progress

RAG vs. fine-tuning

Freshness and cost vs. behavior change.

In progress