Choreography

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:choreography

Severity: contextual

Scope: distributed system, coordination, event

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that coordinates a cross-service flow through events, with each service reacting to the previous one's event.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Consensus and before Determinism.

Requires

• Event-Driven Architecture

Reinforces

• Decentralization
• Autonomy

Enables

• Central-Orchestrator-Free Coordination

Conflicts with

• Central Orchestrator Bottleneck

In tension with

• Traceability

Tensions

• Choreography / Traceability

Violated by

• Central Orchestrator Bottleneck

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Linked from

• Composing a collaboration
• Every record has a kind
• Above one tier, reduction
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Core Modular Design
• Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions