Title: Discussion 8 — Where the Map Meets the Territory
Course: AIINFRA 303: Capstone Project > Section: Week 08 — Design Review and Working Vertical Slice

💬 Discussion 8 — Where the Map Meets the Territory (20 pts)

Prompt: Pull up your Week 3 C4/Structurizr architecture diagram side by side with your Week 8 running vertical slice. Point to the exact spot where the deployed system diverges from the diagram — a component you simplified, a connection you rerouted, a service you swapped out, or a boundary that moved. In 200–300 words:

- Describe the specific divergence (name the component/connection).
- Explain why it happened — was it a bad assumption in the original diagram, a real-world constraint (tooling, time, cost), or something you learned only once you deployed?
- Say whether you plan to update the diagram to match reality, update the system to match the diagram, or leave the divergence and note it as a known trade-off — and why.

Respond to two peers: For each peer, point out whether their divergence looks like a one-off adjustment or a signal of a deeper design assumption worth re-examining, and ask one clarifying question about how it affects their SLOs.