- In short
- Composing two reference architectures is justified when two parts of a problem fail in genuinely different ways worth managing separately. Reaching for a second pattern because the problem is still undefined is a deferred design decision, not a valid composition. Composition roughly doubles the surface area to maintain and requires a separate evaluation set per component, because a system that looks healthy in aggregate can hide a failing component.
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