Software Development Prompts

Review this system design for [system name]: [describe architecture]. Scale requirements: [X users, Y requests/sec]. Evaluate: scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and cost. Identify the top 5 architectural risks and suggest improvements.

Help me decide between a monolith and microservices architecture for [system/product]. Team size: [X developers]. Current scale: [users/requests]. Expected growth: [describe]. Constraints: [budget/timeline/team skills]. Walk through the trade-offs for our specific situation and give a recommendation with rationale.

Design a relational database schema for [application type]. Core entities: [list them]. Key relationships: [describe]. For each table: list columns with data types, mark primary keys and foreign keys, explain the normalisation decisions, and note any denormalisation trade-offs for performance. Include an ERD description.

Design a RESTful API for [feature/service]. Resources: [list main resources]. For each resource: define the endpoints (verb + path), request/response schemas, HTTP status codes to use, authentication approach, and pagination strategy. Apply REST best practices and highlight any design decisions.

Design an event-driven architecture for [system/feature]. Current synchronous flow: [describe]. Events to identify: [list key domain events]. For each event: define the event schema, producer, consumers, and processing guarantees needed (at-least-once/exactly-once). Suggest a suitable message broker (Kafka/SQS/RabbitMQ) for our constraints: [describe scale and team].