Manifestos
We write our applications and the libraries they sit on. These documents explain why.
The Build-Everything Thesis
Building it yourself used to be the expensive option. That's changing.
Read the thesis ↗Trust
We don't want to ship code, services, or patches we didn't stand behind.
Choose every dependency.
We write our own libraries instead of installing someone else's.
Read the manifesto ↗Fix the code you control.
Most scanner tickets are for packages you never chose. We got rid of that pile.
Read the manifesto ↗Choose vendors you can leave.
Auth, email, search, the database — easy to rent, hard to replace.
Read the manifesto ↗Responsibility stays human.
If you didn't check it, don't submit it.
Read the manifesto ↗Simplicity
Extra tools and layers make software bigger, slower, and harder to follow.
One build. One command.
Each tool is reasonable. Stack enough of them and they are the problem.
Read the manifesto ↗Layers must earn their place.
You'll debug every layer you add.
Read the manifesto ↗Ship the product, not the toolchain.
Don't ship code the product never runs.
Read the manifesto ↗Protect the latency budget.
Users wait for every extra hop.
Read the manifesto ↗Infrastructure
Don't add a platform for a problem you don't have.
Rent only what you need.
Use the cloud when you need what it sells.
Read the manifesto ↗We copy a file. It runs.
No image. No cluster. The deploy is the binary.
Read the manifesto ↗Prefer the function call.
Split into services when you have a reason.
Read the manifesto ↗Monitor what matters.
Don't let the dashboards become a second product.
Read the manifesto ↗Coordination
Keep the work with the people who have to live with it.
People are not overhead.
Hire for the product, not for the mess around it.
Read the manifesto ↗The product sets the schedule.
Don't rebuild a working app because a framework moved.
Read the manifesto ↗Keep behavior in code.
Don't hide the product in flags and env files.
Read the manifesto ↗Document what code cannot.
Keep the docs the code can't replace.
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