https://nalar.dev/tags/adr/ Recent content in ADR on Nalar Hugo en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/architecture-decision-records-that-stay-useful/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/architecture-decision-records-that-stay-useful/ <p>Software systems accumulate decisions that are obvious at the time and mysterious six months later. A database was chosen for a reason, a synchronous call became asynchronous for a reason, and a service boundary exists because some trade-off mattered.</p> <p>Architecture Decision Records, or ADRs, preserve that reasoning in small documents close to the code.</p> <h2 id="record-decisions-not-meetings">Record decisions, not meetings</h2> <p>An ADR should answer a future engineer&rsquo;s practical questions:</p> <ul> <li>What problem were we solving?</li> <li>What constraints mattered?</li> <li>What did we decide?</li> <li>Which alternatives were considered?</li> <li>What consequences did we accept?</li> <li>Has this decision been replaced?</li> </ul> <p>It does not need to reproduce a design meeting transcript.</p>