System Design
Advanced
Architecture Review Checklist
Use a practical checklist to evaluate system designs before production launch.
35 min
3 sections
review
production
checklist
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01. Review product and data boundaries
Section 1 of 3
Confirm requirements, non-goals, data ownership, API contracts, schema evolution, privacy classification, retention rules, and support workflows. Many failures start as unclear ownership.
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Design review sections:
- Product requirements and non-goals.
- Data ownership and lifecycle.
- API contracts and compatibility.
- Scale assumptions and bottlenecks.
- Failure modes and recovery.
- Security, privacy, and abuse.
- Observability and SLOs.
- Rollout, migration, and rollback.
- Cost and operational ownership.Back to Course