Resources · 9 Templates

Document Templates

Reusable templates for architecture decision records, design documents, runbooks, RFCs, and other artifacts that every engineering team produces regularly.

Architecture Decision Record (ADR)

Lightweight documentation for significant architecture decisions — context, options, decision, and consequences.

Template Essential

System Design Document

Comprehensive design spec template covering requirements, architecture, data model, APIs, and operational considerations.

Template

RFC (Request for Comments)

Proposal document for significant changes, with problem statement, proposed solution, alternatives, and open questions.

Template

Operational Runbook

Step-by-step procedure template for common operational tasks, incidents, and maintenance windows.

Template Operations

Incident Postmortem

Blameless retrospective template: timeline, impact, root cause analysis, and action items.

Template Reliability

SLO Definition Document

Template for defining Service Level Objectives — SLIs, target thresholds, error budgets, and alerting policy.

Template Observability

API Contract Template

OpenAPI-ready documentation template for REST endpoints — resources, operations, schemas, and error codes.

Template API

Threat Model

Structured template for identifying assets, threats, mitigations, and residual risks using STRIDE.

Template Security

Capacity Planning Document

Growth model template — current baselines, projected load, resource requirements, and headroom targets.

Template Operations