Orchestration / Centralized Coordinator Coupling
Kind: tension
Record: tension:centralized-coordinator-coupling-orchestration
Canonical: Schema
"orchestration" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Centralized Coordinator Coupling" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Centralized Coordinator Coupling" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Control Plane / Availability and before Centralized Configuration / Central Dependency Risk.