Cyclic Deployment Dependency

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:cyclic-deployment-dependency

Severity: discouraged

Scope: architecture_evolution

Formed by: Require two or more services or packages to deploy in lockstep because each depends on the other’s current behavior.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which services must deploy in lockstep because each depends on the other's current version.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Circular Dependency and before Synchronous Chain Trap.

Refactored by

• Versioning
• Backward-Compatible Change
• Consumer-Driven Contract Tests
• Compatibility Adapter

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Architecture evolution

Negated by

• Autonomy

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Core Modular Design
• Event Messaging Async
• Severity levels
• The forces