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Browse curated AI prompt templates related to system design. Each prompt includes reusable variables, examples, and practical workflow ideas.

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Technical Architecture Review

Get a structured architecture review with trade-off analysis for your system design.

Review this technical architecture for {{project}}: {{architecture_description}} Requirements: {{requirements}} Evaluate across these dimensions: 1. **Scalability** — Will it handle 10x growth? 2. **Reliability** — Single points of failure, graceful degradation 3. **Security** — Attack surface, data protection 4. **Maintainability** — Code complexity, coupling, tech debt risk 5. **Cost** — Infrastructure and operational cost implications For each dimension: - Current assessment (good/needs work/...

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Microservice Boundary Designer

Analyzes a monolith or system to recommend service boundaries using domain-driven design principles.

Design microservice boundaries for {{system_description}}. Current architecture: {{current_architecture}}. Team structure: {{team_structure}}. Growth expectations: {{growth}}. Apply: (1) domain decomposition to identify bounded contexts, (2) service boundary recommendation with ownership, (3) data ownership per service (database-per-service vs shared), (4) communication patterns (sync REST/gRPC, async events, sagas), (5) shared kernel vs anti-corruption layer decisions, (6) service dependency ma...