# 1. Record architecture decisions

Date: 2017-11-11

## Status

Accepted

## Context

We need to record the architectural decisions made on this project.

## Decision

We will use Architecture Decision Records, as described by Michael Nygard in  
this article:  
http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-architecture-decisions

## Consequences

See Michael Nygard's article, linked above. For a lightweight ADR toolset, see  
Nat Pryce's _adr-tools_ at https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools.