Philosophy

General development

1. Make it work
2. Make it right
3. Make it better

PG quote:

I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

Team

• do the basics well
• optimize for change

Individual

• explicit workflow steps
• explicit data shapes
• explicit data flow
• document your code (mostly at the block level)

Architecture

• write less code
• fight for simplicity
• have a place for all types of code and functionalities
• collocation over reusability
• use a tool/library/framework before creating from scratch
• don't make up abstractions if we can help it
• abstractions that we create are tested and documented
• plan ahead

Testing

• "not too many tests, just enough"

Devops

• if manual, write up a playbook
• repeatable, automated
• instrumented
• failover
• rollback