Standardization

Kind: principle

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: architecture:standardization

Severity: contextual

Scope: codebase, platform, organization

Canonical: Ontology

A design rule that one format, tool or pattern is chosen for each recurring concern and applied everywhere it occurs.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Architectural Consistency and before Self-Describing Architecture.

Requires

• Standards Definition

Reinforces

• Consistency
• Interoperability

Enables

• Reuse
• Operability

Conflicts with

• Unbounded Variation

In tension with

• Innovation/Autonomy
• Autonomy
• Autonomy / Standardization

Tensions

• Standardization / Innovation/Autonomy

Violated by

• Inconsistent Conventions

Refactored by

• Standardize the Interface

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Enforced by

• codemods/entrypoints/identifier.entrypoint.ts
• codemods/entrypoints/increment.entrypoint.ts
• rules/entrypoints/writing.entrypoint.ts
• rules/eslint/strings-composition.eslint.rule.ts
• rules/eslint/strings-lesson-fields.eslint.rule.ts
• rules/eslint/strings-punctuation.eslint.rule.ts
• rules/eslint/strings-sentence-shape.eslint.rule.ts
• runtime/entrypoints/source.entrypoint.ts
• runtime/entrypoints/target.entrypoint.ts

Reinforced by

• Reference Architecture

Linked from

• Separate, trade, or mitigate
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Core Modular Design
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Core Vocabulary
• Severity levels
• The resolutions