Blueprint Felonies Continued.. The most expensive mistake in architecture isn’t making the wrong decision—it’s making it too early. In 17+ years of building enterprise systems, I’ve seen developers sprint toward "final" decisions as if they were winning a race. They lock themselves into proprietary databases and rigid vendors before the first line of business logic is even written. This is the Irreversibility Trap . 🛑 The Crime: Rushing Irreversible Decisions In architecture, the best decision is the one you don't have to make today. The Scenario : A team signs a three-year contract for a specific NoSQL vendor and bakes that proprietary SDK into every layer before defining the data relationships. The Crime : Forcing a "Hard Decision" before you have the data to justify it. The Brutality : Requirements shift to relational queries NoSQL can't handle. The team is now "locked-in" to a system that fights them daily.…