How do you keep architecture, API, and database documents aligned?
Trace shared concepts across design documents and update affected contracts together when requirements change.
How do you keep architecture, API, and database documents aligned?
Design documents drift when each is maintained independently. Use shared identifiers and examples so contradictions become easy to find.
Trace one operation through all documents
Follow creating a generation job from the API request to its database record, worker input, artifact output, and status response. Check that ownership, state names, and version fields agree. Keep example payloads realistic enough to reveal missing information.
Record coordinated changes
When a state or field changes, identify every consumer and document the migration or compatibility behavior. Distinguish the current design from proposed alternatives. Add a short decision record explaining important tradeoffs rather than leaving abandoned options mixed into active instructions. Before implementation, ask a reviewer or assistant to locate inconsistencies; then verify its findings against the actual contracts. The goal is a usable shared model, not documentation volume.
Trace one real operation and compare its identifiers, ownership rules, states, and data fields at each boundary.
No. Clearly label proposals so they do not become accidental implementation instructions.
Whenever they alter observable fields, behavior, constraints, or migration expectations for API consumers.
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