Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs

Reason about your systems to make intuitive and better design decisions

Understand consequences and how to balance tradeoffs

Pick a proper library for your problem

Thoroughly analyse all of your services dependencies

Understand delivery semantics and how they influence distributed architecture

Design and execute performance tests to detect code hot paths and validate a systems SLA

Optimize code hot paths to get the most improvement efficiently

Understand tight/loose coupling and how it influences coordination of work between teams

Clarify requirements until they are precise, easily implemented, and easily tested

Optimize your APIs for friendly user experience