This artifact focuses on specific aspects of the design, concentrating on structure, essential elements, and key
scenarios and those aspects that have a lasting impact on performance, reliability, adaptability and cost. It defines
the set of mechanism, patterns and styles that are going to guide the rest of the design, assuring its integrity.
Teams are formed around architectural elements, which are the units of implementation, unit testing, integration,
configuration management, documentation, and a host of other activities.
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