Information Hiding / Observability

Kind: tension

Record: tension:information-hiding-observability

Canonical: Schema

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

Listed in Tensions, after Encapsulation / Debuggability and before Abstraction / Simplicity.

In tension with

• Information Hiding
• Observability

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Core Modular Design
• Resolution mechanisms