Pipes and Filters / End-to-End Traceability
Kind: tension
Record: tension:end-to-end-traceability-pipes-and-filters
Canonical: Schema
"pipes-and-filters" (structural-core layer) is traded against "End-to-End Traceability" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "End-to-End Traceability" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Monolith Architecture / Independent Scaling and before Service-Oriented Architecture / Operational Overhead.