Engineering Principles
How I think about engineering
Design for scale
- Avoid tight coupling
- Prefer asynchronous systems
- Design stateless services
- Support horizontal scaling
Performance matters
- Measure first
- Optimize bottlenecks
- Design efficient data access
Reliability first
- Graceful failure
- Retry mechanisms
- Monitoring and alerting
Simplicity over complexity
- Prefer simple architecture
- Avoid unnecessary abstraction
- Keep services focused
Automation is essential
- CI/CD pipelines
- Deployment automation
- Internal developer tools
Learn from production
- Better monitoring
- Better documentation
- Better architecture