Infrastructure Architecture - System Design & Architectural Patterns

What problem does it solve?

Designing robust, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure is complex and requires deep expertise. This Skill provides comprehensive guidance on architectural patterns, multi-region design, disaster recovery, and capacity planning, helping you build resilient systems that meet business demands without overspending. It streamlines decision-making and ensures your infrastructure is future-proof.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Architectural Decision Records (ADRs): Standardize decision-making with clear documentation of context, choices, and consequences, fostering transparency and knowledge sharing.
• Multi-Region & DR Planning: Implement active-active or active-passive strategies with defined RTO/RPO to ensure business continuity and minimize downtime.
• Cost-Aware Design: Optimize infrastructure spend through right-sizing, auto-scaling, and FinOps principles, reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Use Case: When tasked with designing a new microservices platform, use this Skill to generate an ADR for database selection, outline a multi-region active-passive strategy, and perform initial capacity planning, ensuring a well-documented, scalable, and cost-efficient design from the start.

Quick Start

Help me draft an Architecture Decision Record (ADR) for choosing between a monolithic and microservices architecture for a new e-commerce platform. Include the context, decision, consequences, and alternatives considered.