balanced-coupling
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The Balanced Coupling model for software design. Use when: designing modular architectures, evaluating coupling between components, reviewing code modularity, deciding whether to split or merge modules/services, assessing integration patterns, classifying coupling as balanced or unbalanced, applying DDD strategic and tactical patterns, reasoning about cohesion vs coupling trade-offs, identifying distributed monolith risks, or explaining why a system is hard to change. Provides the three-dimensional framework (integration strength, distance, volatility) and the balance rule for making coupling decisions.
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