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How engineering teams can capture technical decisions
Architecture choices and incident follow-ups are made out loud. A lightweight record keeps the reasoning.
Dura AI Editorial6 min read
Engineering teams already know they should write things down. In practice, the architecture review ends, everyone agrees, and the decision record never gets written.
Capture the decision and the reason
The useful record is short: what was decided, the alternatives considered, and why this one won. That is a few lines, and most of it was already said in the meeting.
Treat follow-ups as tickets immediately
Retry budgets, load tests, migration plans and postmortems all come out of meetings. Create them as tickets while the context is fresh and link each to the discussion.
Make it searchable
Six months later, “why did we choose a queue?” should be answerable in seconds, with the source.