# discouraged > A design that is avoided unless a stated need calls for it. Record: `vocabulary:severity-discouraged` Kind: severity Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#vocabulary-severity-discouraged Listed in [Controlled vocabularies](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/vocabulary.md), after [contextual](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-contextual.md) and before [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md). ## Severity of - [Big Ball of Mud](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/big-ball-of-mud.md) - [God Object](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/god-object.md) - [Concrete Coupling](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/concrete-coupling.md) - [Schema Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/schema-drift.md) - [Implicit Contract](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/implicit-contract.md) - [Hardcoded Configuration](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/hardcoded-configuration.md) - [Shared Mutable State](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/shared-mutable-state.md) - [Boundary Leakage](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/boundary-leakage.md) - [Manual-Only Governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/manual-only-governance.md) - [Opaque Runtime Behavior](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/opaque-runtime-behavior.md) - [Unowned Risk](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/unowned-risk.md) - [Unobservable Failure](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/unobservable-failure.md) - [Unversioned Breaking Change](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/unversioned-breaking-change.md) - [Distributed Monolith](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/distributed-monolith.md) - [Shotgun Surgery](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/shotgun-surgery.md) - [Divergent Change](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/divergent-change.md) - [Feature Envy](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/feature-envy.md) - [Inappropriate Intimacy](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/inappropriate-intimacy.md) - [Message Chain](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/message-chain.md) - [Middle Man](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/middle-man.md) - [Data Clumps](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/data-clumps.md) - [Primitive Obsession](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/primitive-obsession.md) - [Stringly Typed Programming](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/stringly-typed-programming.md) - [Boolean Trap](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/boolean-trap.md) - [Long Parameter List](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/long-parameter-list.md) - [Magic Value](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/magic-value.md) - [Speculative Generality](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/speculative-generality.md) - [Premature Abstraction](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/premature-abstraction.md) - [Over-Abstraction](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/over-abstraction.md) - [Golden Hammer](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/golden-hammer.md) - [Pattern Cargo Cult](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/pattern-cargo-cult.md) - [Lava Flow](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/lava-flow.md) - [Zombie Code](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/zombie-code.md) - [Temporal Coupling](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/temporal-coupling.md) - [Hidden Side Effect](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/hidden-side-effect.md) - [Action at a Distance](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/action-at-a-distance.md) - [Ambient Context](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/ambient-context.md) - [Inconsistent Error Model](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/inconsistent-error-model.md) - [Exception Control Flow](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/exception-control-flow.md) - [Null Semantics Drift](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/null-semantics-drift.md) - [Anemic Domain Model](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/anemic-domain-model.md) - [Transaction Script Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/transaction-script-sprawl.md) - [Fat Controller](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/fat-controller.md) - [Repository Dump](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/repository-dump.md) - [Utility Dump](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/utility-dump.md) - [Framework Leakage](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/framework-leakage.md) - [Vendor Lock-In Leakage](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/vendor-lock-in-leakage.md) - [Circular Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/circular-dependency.md) - [Cyclic Deployment Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/cyclic-deployment-dependency.md) - [Synchronous Chain Trap](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/synchronous-chain-trap.md) - [Chatty Interface](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/chatty-interface.md) - [N Plus One Query](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/n-plus-one-query.md) - [Cache Poisoning by Design](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/cache-poisoning-by-design.md) - [Retry Storm](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/retry-storm.md) - [Timeout Omission](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/timeout-omission.md) - [Missing Backpressure](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/missing-backpressure.md) - [Silent Data Corruption](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/silent-data-corruption.md) - [Lost Update](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/lost-update.md) - [Dual Write](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/dual-write.md) - [Read-Your-Writes Violation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/read-your-writes-violation.md) - [Security Theater](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/security-theater.md) - [Authorization Scattering](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/authorization-scattering.md) - [Secret Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/secret-sprawl.md) - [Personal Data Oversharing](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/personal-data-oversharing.md) - [Observability Noise](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/observability-noise.md) - [Log-as-Control-Flow](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/log-as-control-flow.md) - [Manual Runbook Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/manual-runbook-dependency.md) - [Big-Bang Release](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/big-bang-release.md) - [Irreversible Migration](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/irreversible-migration.md) - [Big-Upfront Frozen Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/big-upfront-frozen-architecture.md) - [Architecture Astronaut](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/architecture-astronaut.md) - [Feature-Only Design](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/feature-only-design.md) - [Test Pyramid Inversion](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/test-pyramid-inversion.md) - [Mock Mirage](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/mock-mirage.md) - [Flaky Test Normalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/flaky-test-normalization.md) - [Prompt Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/prompt-sprawl.md) - [Ungrounded Content](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/ungrounded-content.md) - [Model Version Ambiguity](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/model-version-ambiguity.md) - [Runtime Code Generation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/runtime-code-generation.md) - [Singleton Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/singleton-pattern.md) - [Service Locator Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/service-locator-pattern.md) - [Contradicted Invariant](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/contradicted-invariant.md) - [Written Status Marker](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/written-status-marker.md) - [Invocation-Keyed Report](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/invocation-keyed-report.md) - [Narrowed Aggregate](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/narrowed-aggregate.md) - [Cyclic Tiebreak](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/cyclic-tiebreak.md) - [Destructive Closure](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/destructive-closure.md) - [Hand-Kept Index](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/hand-kept-index.md) ## Linked from - [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md) - [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md) - [Creational Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-creational-patterns.md) - [Plugin / Extensibility / IoC](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-plugin-extensibility-ioc.md) - [Coordination Surfaces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-coordination-surfaces.md)