Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) / Excessive Fragmentation

Kind: tension

Record: tension:excessive-fragmentation-single-responsibility-principle-srp

Canonical: Schema

"single-responsibility" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Excessive Fragmentation" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Excessive Fragmentation" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Immutable Infrastructure / Deploy Time and before Separation of Concerns / Over-Layering.

In tension with

• Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
• Excessive Fragmentation

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Architectural rules and principles
• Core Modular Design
• Resolution mechanisms