Anti-Corruption Layer / Mapping Overhead
Kind: tension
Record: tension:anti-corruption-layer-mapping-overhead
Canonical: Schema
"anti-corruption-layer" (domain-modeling layer) is traded against "Mapping Overhead" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Mapping Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Context Mapping / Documentation Overhead and before Explicit Boundaries / Cross-Cutting Concerns.