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ECO-ARC-ARCH-003

Name: Long synchronous dependency chain

Category: ARC

Family: ARCH

Primary layer: architecture

System layers: architecture

Description

Synchronous call chains amplify latency and failure propagation.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.8
  • notes: Common microservice anti-pattern.
  • type: latency

Detection

  • languages:
  • infra
  • method: trace

Remediation

  • guidance: Introduce async boundaries, caching, or collapse hops.
  • tradeoffs: Consistency and design tradeoffs.

Pattern examples

No pattern examples provided.

Remediation examples

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