Great article. A lot of very standard practices. Or at least… should be.

One thing that I often add is the people interacting with the system. They’re a part of it too. Most people don’t operate in an atomically consistent world; a lot of business processes are eventually consistent. But you do need to know where you have to have atomic operations! It depends on where the user expects it.

Systems thinking is very useful. From how your software is deployed to how the people using it in their work. Always be thinking about these things.