Start from the problem
Before the stack, understand constraints, business risk and expected behaviour.
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Engineering principles
Practical criteria guiding architecture, delivery and operations decisions.
Reduce shared state
Every new state is a potential failure source. Prefer explicit boundaries and auditable data.
Automate what repeats
Tests, deploys, checks and recurring manual routines should become tools.
Operate what you build
Logs, metrics, alerts and recovery are part of the product, not a later phase.
Prefer proven simplicity
Complexity needs clear operational justification, not architectural enthusiasm.
Human review remains
Tools speed up decisions, but responsibility, context and judgement remain human.