Software Engineering · Product & Engineering
Request for Comments — a written design proposal circulated for team feedback before a risky or significant piece of work begins.
Example: A doc proposing a switch from REST to gRPC internally, circulated to the backend team a week before anyone starts coding.
In practice: Writing the proposal down before building forces the author to think through edge cases and trade-offs explicitly, and gives reviewers a chance to object while changes are still cheap.