ECO-RES-DEG-001¶
Name: No degraded mode for optional dependencies
Category: Resilience & Reliability
Family: Graceful Degradation
Primary layer: architecture
System layers: architecture
Description¶
The system fails completely when optional dependencies such as recommendations, analytics, or enrichment are unavailable.
Impact¶
- type: resilience
- confidence: 0.75
- notes: Added as part of the 0.3.0 expansion to capture cross-system sustainability and operational waste.
Detection¶
- method: static-or-runtime
- confidence: 0.55
- runtime_validation_required: Yes
Remediation¶
- guidance: Classify dependencies by criticality and provide fallback, cached, or reduced-function behavior for non-critical services.
- tradeoffs: May require architecture, product, or operations review rather than a local code change.
Cost Dimensions¶
- compute: medium
- memory: low
- network: medium
- storage: low
- human_time: high
- carbon: medium
- water: low
Amplification¶
- scales_with_users: Yes
- scales_with_data_volume: No
- scales_non_linearly: Yes
Temporal Behavior¶
- startup_only: No
- steady_state: Yes
- burst_sensitive: Yes
- time_degradation: No
Runtime Evidence¶
- architecture review
- dependency traces
- incident reports
Pattern examples¶
No pattern examples provided.
Remediation examples¶
No remediation examples provided.
Metadata¶
- catalog_version: 0.4.0
- status: draft
- source: catalog expansion recommendations applied 2026-05-21