Decentralization

Kind: principle

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:decentralization

Severity: contextual

Scope: system, team, service

Canonical: Ontology

A design rule that decisions and runtime control sit with the teams and services that own them, joined by contracts.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Centralized Logging and before Leader Election.

Requires

• Autonomy
• Contracts

Reinforces

• Microservices
• Resilience

Enables

• Independent Ownership

Conflicts with

• Centralized Control

In tension with

• Governance
• Consistency
• Single Source of Truth
• Single Source of Truth / Decentralization

Tensions

• Decentralization / Governance
• Decentralization / Consistency

Violated by

• Centralized Control

Refactored by

• Assign Owner
• Management API

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Reinforced by

• Choreography

Linked from

• Separate, trade, or mitigate
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Core Modular Design
• Error Handling / Resilience
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Core Vocabulary
• Severity levels
• The resolutions