LMS Technical Limitations
Summary
Audience
Engineering, product, QA, support, operations, architecture, and security.
Reference Content
| Area | Confirmed limitation | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Layering | Endpoint delegates directly use DbContext/domain/infrastructure | Transitional |
| Application architecture | No command/query handlers, Result abstraction, mapper, validator, repository, or unit of work | Foundation |
| Domain | Public-setter data model; no domain events/services or encapsulated aggregate invariants | Transitional |
| Authorization | No confirmed service-local authentication/endpoint policy/resource ownership | Foundation |
| Employee ownership | Identifier-only; no eligibility, hierarchy, or self-only validation | Foundation |
| Learning paths | Stored order without enforced progression/prerequisites | Partial |
| Sessions | No attendance, capacity, completion/cancel, or schedule conflict controls | Partial |
| Trainers | Entity/reference without administration service/API | Foundation |
| Assessments | Supplied result; no answer-derived scoring, attempt policy, or answer-protection evidence | Transitional |
| Certificates | No expiry/revoke/renew/verification operations | Partial |
| Documents | No distributed transaction, cleanup/versioning/retention reconciliation | Transitional |
| Messaging | Outbox exists; no Training relay trigger, inbound consumer, replay/dead-letter governance | Foundation |
| Concurrency/cache | No concurrency token, cache, or cache invalidation found | Not implemented |
| Observability | Traces/logs/health exist; metrics, dependency probes, dashboards/alerts absent | Partial |
| Testing | One broad smoke asset; no dedicated automated test project/UI/HTTP collection | Partial |
| Compatibility | No legacy/backfill/parity/cutover layer | Not implemented |
Requires confirmation
Fine-grained authorization, production ownership, operational governance, and future architectural boundaries require confirmation where not implemented.
Source References
microservices/src/training-service/Program.csmicroservices/src/training-service/Api/TrainingEndpoints.csmicroservices/src/training-service/Domain/TrainingEntities.csmicroservices/src/training-service/Infrastructure/TrainingDbContext.csmicroservices/src/training-service/Application/DocumentServiceClient.csmicroservices/scripts/smoke-training.ps1
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See Also
Keywords
- LMS technical architecture
- Source-backed implementation
Revision Information
- Status: Draft
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-17
- Review cycle: Quarterly