Service Locator Pattern / Explicit Dependencies
Kind: tension
Record: tension:explicit-dependencies-service-locator-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"service-locator-pattern" (extensibility-core layer) is traded against "Explicit Dependencies" (extensibility-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Explicit Dependencies" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Service Locator Pattern / Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) and before Feature Toggle / Flag Debt.