Compare architectures
Architecture comparison is a staffing and incident conversation. Argumont scores correctness, operations, and reversibility, not fashion.
decision
Architecture choices need opposition
Technology decisions are often won by familiarity. Argumont asks whether the preferred stack is actually stronger on correctness, time to value, operations, and reversibility.
What this decision type is
A technology decision selects a way of working for years: languages, clouds, data stores, queues, and the people who can operate them. 'Modern' is not a criterion. It is a slogan.
The user's preferred architecture is a contestant. A challenger should try to defeat it on failure modes, not on taste.
Common mistakes
Resume-driven development picks tools that look good in a hiring market and are expensive to operate with the current team.
Another mistake is ignoring the cost of delay. A slower 'correct' path can lose if the company dies waiting.
What evidence matters
Incident history for similar systems, staffing reality, vendor lock-in clauses, latency and cost at expected load, and security surface. Benchmarks from vendor blogs are marketing until reproduced.
How Argumont evaluates it
Independent briefs, claim extraction, and risk analysis across operational, technical, dependency, and security categories. Scoring should remain traceable to those records.
Example criteria
Correctness
Whether the approach solves the actual problem.
Time to value
Speed of a working result with this team.
Operational risk
Failure modes in production, including 3 a.m. ownership.
Maintainability
Long-run cost of change.
Lock-in
How hard reversal is after twelve months.
Security
Attack surface and control quality.
Common risks
Single-vendor gravity
Convenience today becomes an exit tax tomorrow.
Undercounted migration
The 'temporary' system becomes the system.
Example decision
Should we use a managed queue, build on Postgres, or adopt a streaming platform? Include staffing as a first-class constraint.
Related pages
Build vs buy
The slogan hides the real options: build, buy, assemble, or decline the capability. Argumont scores those paths on time to value, lock-in, and operational owner...
Which cloud provider?
A cloud decision is often made by whoever already has credentials. That is a criterion. It should be written down, not disguised as a technical necessity.
Assumption testing
Every plan sits on unstated ifs. Testing means you write them, rank them by how much they would change the decision, and gather evidence on the top few.
Decisions
These pages are not a directory of keywords. Each one describes a kind of choice, the evidence it needs, how Argumont scores it, and where to go next.
Challenge this architecture
Argumont challenges assumptions, researches evidence, compares competing approaches, and identifies the strongest decision.
Challenge this architecture