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The Best Decision Log and ADR Tools in 2026
A Markdown ADR folder in the repo is free and enough for most teams. When adr-tools, Log4brains, Backstage, Confluence, Notion or Kioku earns its place.
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Engineering
What Is an Architecture Decision Record (ADR)? A Practical Guide
An ADR is a short document capturing one architectural decision, its context and its consequences. Here is the format, when to write one, and what makes them fail.
Engineering
How to Onboard an Engineer onto an AI-Generated Codebase
Onboarding used to mean finding the person who wrote it. In a codebase where much of the code was generated, that person may not exist. A practical approach to ramping engineers into code with no author.
Backend & APIs
What Is an ER Diagram?
An entity-relationship diagram shows what things exist in a system and how they relate. Its real value is not documentation - it is that cardinality forces questions nobody asks until the data is wrong.
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