Introduction

A framework of technical questions on client's requirements to arrive at optimal decision. Includes

• selected questions on existing architecture.
• selected questions on NFR requirements.
• selected questions on functional requirements where applicable.
• known choices for all the above.
• Includes database of technical choices for each layer in the to-be architecture.
• A desktop GUI mode for interactive quiz-style decision tree.
• A command line interactive mode for quiz-style decision tree.
• A non-interactive CLI mode with an input file which contains answers to questions to atleast the set of questions that are applicable along the decision path.

Design

Framework's core data structure is a "knowledge graph". It is further described here

References

• 7 Database Paradigms by Fireship
• SQL vs. NoSQL Database: When to Use, How to Choose by Satish Chandra Gupta