Book 7 · Lesson 7.12 · deep-dive

Deep-dive — stack decision rubric

  • Apply EM/Staff rubric to hiring and architecture reviews
  • Document choose vs avoid per scenario
  • Close Book 7 with pattern judgment, not stack wars

Prerequisites: 7.8

Appendix 7.A4 — extended practice on the rubric from lesson 7.8.

Context: Teaching event-driven design

Choose: Millipede PDF stack

Avoid here: Enterprise BFF rewrite

Rubric dimensions

For each scenario ask:

  1. Constraint — enterprise auth? teaching clarity? eval CI?
  2. Choose — pattern that fits this context
  3. Avoid — seductive copy-paste from another repo

Scenarios in the widget mirror docs/work-alignment.md — teaching stack vs Snyk entitlements vs eval gates.

Book 7 capstone line

“I can ship quality systems on the PDF architecture and explain when work-repo patterns apply elsewhere.”

Teach-back prompt

Cycle all three widget scenarios — 90 seconds each, no slides.