# Integration Overhead

> The degree of effort required to wire independently-developed components together.

Record: `lexicon:integration-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-integration-overhead

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Initial Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/initial-complexity.md) and before [Operational Simplicity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/operational-simplicity.md).

## Category

- [Codebase / System Architecture Styles](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/codebase-system-architecture-styles.md)

## In tension with

- [Component-Based Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/component-based-architecture.md)
- [Component-Based Architecture / Integration Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/component-based-architecture-integration-overhead.md)

## Linked from

- [Codebase / System Architecture Styles](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-codebase-system-architecture-styles.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)