Engineering Notes: Shipping Fast Without Breaking Prod
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The small set of engineering habits that let a tiny team ship multiple products a week without turning weekends into incident calls.
You don't need a platform team to ship fast. You need a handful of habits applied ruthlessly.
Habits
- Feature flags for anything user-visible
- Migrations reversible by default
- Every background job idempotent
- Logs structured, boring, and searchable
- Alerts that page only when a human must act
None of this is new. What's new is applying it before you have the problem — not after.
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