Architecture Vs. Design
So what is the difference between architecture and design? Architecture casts non-functional decisions and partitions functional requirements, whereas design specifies or derives functional requirements. The process of defining an architecture may use heuristics or iterative improvements; this may require going a level deeper to validate the choices, so the architect often has to do a high-level design to validate the partitioning.
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