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Security (Zero Trust)

Identity-first access, SBOM/signing, EDR, SIEM/SOAR, and playbooks.

Capabilities

• Contracts & change safety
• SLIs/SLOs
• Cost guardrails

Perennial patterns

• Standards-first
• Separation of concerns
• Failure as a normal state

Modern enablers

• Examples you can swap as needed

Anti-patterns

• Vendor-led architecture without contracts
• Shared-DB coupling

What good looks like

• Green CI gates
• Trace IDs end-to-end
• DR drill in last quarter