Service Contract / Distributed Evolution

Kind: tension

Record: tension:distributed-evolution-service-contract

Canonical: Schema

"service-contract" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Distributed Evolution" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Distributed Evolution" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after API Contract / Evolution and before Data Contract / Flexible Ingestion.

In tension with

• Service Contract
• Distributed Evolution

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Resolution mechanisms