{
  "uid": "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides",
  "kind": "module",
  "href": "/modules/use-the-decision-guides/",
  "title": "Use the decision guides",
  "summary": "Learn the shared shape behind Cogitave's database-selection, infrastructure-selection, and model-selection guides - a default, a decision tree, and an ADR-gated deviation rule - and walk a real workload to a justified, recorded choice.",
  "type": null,
  "products": [
    "cogitave-core"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "developer"
  ],
  "levels": [
    "beginner"
  ],
  "subjects": [
    "software-engineering"
  ],
  "headings": [],
  "source": "By the end of this module, you'll be able to:\n- Explain the three-layer guidance model from ADR-0021 - selection, radar, domain - and where the decision guides sit in it.\n- State the shared shape every decision guide follows: a default, a walkable decision tree, and a deviation rule gated on a measured need and an ADR.\n- Walk the database-selection and infrastructure-selection decision trees for a real workload to the guide's prescribed answer.\n- Explain the model-selection guide's \"most capable first, optimize down with evidence\" posture and when escalating or descending a tier needs an eval or an ADR.\n- Recognize when a choice is the ratified default and needs nothing recorded, versus when it is a deviation that must cite a measured ceiling in an ADR.\n",
  "units": [
    "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides.introduction",
    "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides.how-decision-guides-work",
    "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides.walk-a-decision-guide",
    "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides.knowledge-check",
    "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides.summary"
  ],
  "durationInMinutes": 26,
  "badge": "cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides.badge",
  "partOf": "cogitave.learn.paths.patterns-golden-paths"
}