General System Templates

General System Templates

Use the awesome-architecture general system templates as architecture maps for common product classes. Treat each template as a starting point, not a drop-in answer.

Source Of Truth

• Local source repo: ~/.hermes/external-repos/awesome-architecture
• Template map: references/template-map.md

When To Use

• 架构模板, 系统设计模板, 系统架构模板
• 电商架构, 支付系统架构, 搜索引擎架构
• 实时聊天架构, 社交 feed 架构, 视频流媒体架构
• 云存储架构, 通知系统架构, 在线票务架构
• 系统设计面试, system design interview

For AI-native systems, route to comm/arch/ai-system-templates. For higher-level framing, route to comm/arch/architecture-thinking.

Workflow

1. Match the user's scenario to one or two templates from references/template-map.md.
2. Read the matching upstream template files before answering.
3. Structure the answer as:
   • problem shape
   • core components
   • data flow and state hotspots
   • failure and scale bottlenecks
   • key trade-offs
   • evolution path
4. If the user's system blends multiple classes, compare the closest templates and state what transfers cleanly vs what does not.

Guardrails

• Stay at the architecture level unless the user asks for implementation.
• Do not imply the template is the only valid shape.
• Call out where scale, consistency, latency, or compliance changes the answer.

References

• references/template-map.md