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The Software Development Handbook
A 60-page guide to building software past the prototype: project scoping, architecture choices, code-review standards, and the production-readiness work that distinguishes a thing that demos from a thing that runs.
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- Architecture decisions and post-mortems from real engagements
- Stack-agnostic principles that survive the next framework
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Table of Contents
Six Chapters, End to End
From the first stakeholder conversation to the production runbook a junior engineer can actually follow at 2am.
Project Discovery & Scoping
How to write a brief the engineering team actually wants to read, define success in something other than 'launched on time,' and surface the architectural decisions that need to be made before scope is locked.
Architecture & Stack Selection
How to choose a stack against the team you actually have, not the team you would hire if you could. When to take the boring path and when novelty is justified. Why most architecture mistakes happen at month two, not week one.
Team Structure & Agile Process
Team shapes that survive scaling (and the ones that quietly fail at twelve engineers), sprints short enough to be useful and long enough to ship something, and the on-call rotation conversation every growing team puts off too long.
Code Quality & Security
Code review that catches design issues before they ship, a testing strategy that respects the time budget, threat modeling at the right altitude, and the CI/CD discipline that turns a production incident into a tweet, not an all-hands.
Data Architecture
Schema design that does not force a rewrite at the 10x mark, when to denormalize and when to refuse, the analytical-vs-transactional boundary, and the migration discipline that lets you change anything once you have committed users.
Production Readiness & DevOps
Infrastructure-as-code that does not become a parallel architecture, monitoring that surfaces problems before customers do, alerting calibrated against your actual SLO, and the post-incident review that turns a Sev-1 into a permanent improvement instead of a Notion page nobody reads.
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