https://blog-dev.simpleenough.net/tags/adr/Recent content in ADR on Simple Enough BlogHugoenMon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100https://blog-dev.simpleenough.net/blog/adr/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100https://blog-dev.simpleenough.net/blog/adr/<p>Engineering teams spend a lot of time discussing, arbitrating, choosing… and then forgetting <em>why</em> they made certain decisions.<br> The outcome is familiar:</p> <ul> <li>the same debates come back every three months,</li> <li>decisions get challenged without the original context,</li> <li>onboarding depends on “the people who know,”</li> <li>and unnecessary migrations are born from a simple loss of memory.</li> </ul> <p>An <strong>ADR (Architecture Decision Record)</strong> exists to avoid that. It’s not a “big architecture doc,” nor a requirements spec: it’s a <strong>short note</strong> that captures an important decision, with just enough context to keep it understandable and reusable.</p>