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Architecture for a team of one
Engineering trade-offs change completely when you are the only person on call at 3am.
- Engineering
- Process
Principles
Boring beats clever. Every novel piece of technology is one more thing you must remember how to fix at midnight.
Fewer moving parts outrank theoretical performance. A 40ms query you understand beats an 8ms query you do not.
Automate the third time you do it. Not the first — that is premature optimisation.
Checklist
- Has restoring from backup ever been rehearsed?
- Is there an alert you routinely ignore? Delete it.
- Could a new hire deploy on day one?