Spike 360 Architecture Evaluator
Interrogates data authority and failure modes before planning architectural rewrites, dual-write systems, or event-sourcing migrations.
Spike 360 is an architectural planning discipline that evaluates system authority before drafting schemas or refactoring plans. It prevents accidental architectural bloat by categorizing proposed changes into five explicit authority levels—from simple audit logs to replacement runtimes—ensuring engineering teams don't introduce complex event-sourcing, dual-writes, or new systems of record when a minimal ledger or read projection would suffice. For higher-risk authority shifts, it enforces rigorous current-state audits and failure-scenario reviews to identify divergence, concurrency gaps, and replay risks before implementation begins.