Words you know: complete the sentences

coupling · comments · cohesion · doc · rationale

• The senior architect wrote a detailed design ____ before we began coding.
• Sean published a request for ____ to gather feedback on the sharding strategy.
• The engineering team documented the technical ____ behind the database migration.
• We reduced tight ____ between microservices by introducing message queues.
• High ____ within the authentication module made the codebase much easier to test.

Remember: Nominalisation

• Management made the ___ to migrate the Chicago infrastructure to AWS. [decision / decide]
• We must verify the ___ of database replicas in Seattle. [availability / available]
• The sudden ___ of the London server caused widespread panic. [failure / fail]
• Engineers analysed the ___ of the cache invalidation queue in Boston. [performance / perform]

Remember: Contrast and concession

• ___ the database was overloaded, the API remained responsive. [Although / Despite]
• We scaled out the cluster ___ high AWS costs. [despite / although]
• Boston engineers preferred sharding, ___ Sean advocated for vertical scaling. [whereas / despite]
• Much ___ we wanted a simple fix, the architecture required major changes. [as / though]

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