Downloads
Practical tools to take into your own work. They are free to use, adapt and share. A link back to ArchitectureCompass is appreciated.
| Download | What it’s for | Formats |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture review checklist | Over 60 questions to answer before a design is approved: requirements, boundaries, data, integration, security, resilience, operations, cost and decisions. | PDF · Markdown |
| Production readiness checklist | What a service needs before it takes real traffic, including lessons from well-known outages in the failure library. | PDF · Markdown |
| Architecture decision record template | A blank ADR to copy into your repository. To fill one in step by step, use the ADR generator. | Markdown |
| C4 diagram templates | System context, container and component diagrams as Mermaid code that renders in GitHub, GitLab and most wikis. | Markdown |
Runnable reference implementations
Section titled “Runnable reference implementations”The reference implementations on GitHub (opens in a new tab) are free too: microservices and RAG in six languages and a lakehouse in two, each with a one-command demo.
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Written and edited by Abhinav Taduka, enterprise software architect.