Pattern 95 / LIFECYCLE

Data Retention Window

Use this when Bounding storage, privacy, and replay obligations.

Pressure
Bounding storage, privacy, and replay obligations
Mechanism
Define how long data stays queryable, restorable, or replayable before archival/deletion
Toll
Retention must reconcile legal, product, and operational needs
Architecture plate95
Diagram for Data Retention Window
Executive brief

Data Retention Window fits when Bounding storage, privacy, and replay obligations. Mechanism: Define how long data stays queryable, restorable, or replayable before archival/deletion. Use it for Logs, events, backups, user data. The toll: Retention must reconcile legal, product, and operational needs.

Use when

Logs, events, backups, user data.

Example

Use data retention window when logs, events, backups, user data..

Review framing

Describe the pressure first, then the mechanism, then the cost. That keeps the design grounded.

Same pressure family

Data Lifecycle

94Soft Delete
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