study8677/awesome-architecture

This open-source project assembles what most engineering teams spend months sourcing on their own: 26 bilingual tutorials walking through architecture decisions, 25 reusable templates for common patterns, and 6 end-to-end cases that go from requirements to production trade-offs. The AI-native and RAG coverage is the standout addition — most architecture references were written before LLMs became a real infrastructure concern, so the gap between classic distributed-systems content and what you actually need to design a retrieval-augmented app is real. This repo tries to close it. The bilingual format is a genuine differentiator if your team spans English and Mandarin. The main reservation is that aggregated reference repos live or die by maintenance cadence — check commit history before treating it as a primary reference. Still, the breadth-to-quality ratio is higher than most alternatives at this scope. -> Best for: technical PM or SaaS team of 2-5 designing their first AI-native backend