Ports and Adapters Architecture / Initial Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:initial-complexity-ports-and-adapters-architecture
Canonical: Schema
"ports-and-adapters-architecture" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Initial Complexity" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Initial Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Ports and Adapters Architecture / Boilerplate and before Clean Architecture / Boilerplate.