Engineering Architecture Review

October 1, 2026, 11:00 AM75 min3 participantsEngineering

AI summary

The team reviewed the proposal to move onboarding events to a queue-based pipeline. They agreed to adopt a queue with a bounded retry policy and to keep the existing database schema for the first release.

Queue-based pipeline
Retry policy
Database schema
Load testing

Decisions

Use a queue-based pipeline for onboarding events15:00
Keep the existing database schema for the first release35:00
Cap retries with a bounded retry policy50:00

Transcript

Michael Brown · 11:15 AMDecision

I'm comfortable moving onboarding events to a queue. Let's make that the direction.

Ethan Miller · 11:16 AMAction item

I'll write the ADR for the queue-based pipeline by tomorrow.

Noah Williams · 11:25 AMAction item

I'll prototype the queue consumer by Monday.

Michael Brown · 11:35 AMDecision

We keep the existing schema for the first release. No migrations on the critical path.

Michael Brown · 11:35 AMAction item

I'll update the schema migration plan so it matches that decision.

Ethan Miller · 11:50 AMDecision

Retries need a ceiling. Let's cap them with a bounded policy.

Ethan Miller · 11:50 AMAction item

I'll load-test the queue pipeline once the prototype is up.

Noah Williams · 11:55 AMAction item

I'll set up retry and dead-letter monitoring before we load-test.