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Regulatory Constraint
A legal requirement that removes design options — and one that must be established early, because it is not negotiable and is expensive to retrofit.
Architectural Driver
The small subset of requirements and constraints that actually shape the structure of the system.
Cloud Exit Plan
A documented, costed assessment of what leaving a provider or service would require — increasingly a regulatory expectation and a better lock-in control than portability itself.
Constraint Thinking
Designing for the budget, timeline, skills, regulations and existing estate that actually exist, rather than for the ones a textbook assumes.
Foreign Key Constraint
A database-enforced rule that a referencing value must exist in the referenced table — referential integrity that no application bug can violate.
Personally Identifiable Information
Data relating to an identifiable person — a category far broader than name and address, and the trigger for most regulatory obligation.
Solution Architecture
The design of a specific system that satisfies a specific business problem under a specific set of constraints.
A startup asks you to architect their product "to handle millions of users". They currently have none. What do you actually build?
What the interviewer is testing Whether you can identify the real constraint. The stated requirement is scale; the actual constraint is survival, and an archite
Instagram served 14 million users with three engineers on Django and Postgres. What does that tell you about how to choose an architecture for a new product?
What the interviewer is testing Whether you can identify the binding constraint. For most products it is not traffic. What Instagram actually did Their 2011 pos
Regulatory Constraints
Non-negotiable requirements that remove design options entirely.
Organisational Constraints
Team structure, skills and budget cycles as architectural inputs.
Requirements to Constraints
Turning stated requirements into the constraints that actually bound a design.
Technical Constraints
Existing estate, skills, licences and platforms as inputs rather than obstacles.
Relational Modelling
Normalisation, keys, constraints and the invariants a schema enforces.