Standards

Overview

Standards make aspects of principles verifiable by stating what must be true in a given engineering context.

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Design a system so it can be operated, changed, and integrated without breaking its consumers.

Write and maintain code so it stays easy to understand, review, secure, and change.

Test every change for correctness, performance, security, and accessibility before it ships.

Treat shipping a change as routine, automated, and low-risk, not a rare, high-stakes event.

Choose infrastructure deliberately, so a system is deployed, operated, scaled, and maintained in a predictable way.

Give production systems enough visibility to understand their behaviour, detect problems, and recover quickly.

Secure access, data, and dependencies throughout a system's development and operation, from the outset.

Weigh a system's cost and resource consumption alongside its functional requirements from the outset.

Use AI tools to speed up engineering work without losing control of data, accountability, or cost.

Give engineers a consistent local environment and fast feedback, so problems surface before shared environments do.

Document engineering knowledge so it outlives any one person's memory and stays useful as systems change.