How Much Server Does Your App Actually Need?
Memory is a wall and processor is a queue. Size for the peak you can actually reach, and start tight enough that the instance tells you something.
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One Environment, or Two?
Staging is only useful while it resembles production, and resemblance decays. What a second environment is actually for, and what to have instead.
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Could You Actually Leave?
Code leaves easily, data leaves slowly, and operational knowledge usually does not leave at all. Test the exit once, while nothing is on fire.
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Who Reviews the Code the Agent Wrote?
Reviewing generated code is a different job: read for what is missing, make the agent justify before it fixes, and treat review capacity as the bottleneck.
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Two Apps, One Repository
A repository is a unit of source control, not of deployment. Split two apps when their lifecycles differ — not because they sit in separate folders.
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Where Do the Secrets Live?
A credential's problem is copies, not storage. Inject at deploy rather than baking at build, and judge the design by how fast you could rotate it.
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You Probably Do Not Need a Queue Yet
A database table is a queue until throughput, fan-out or retry handling says otherwise. And a cache is not a substitute for fixing the slow query.
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You Shipped an Internal Tool. Who Can Open It?
An unlisted URL is a password that forwards itself. Make private the default, make publishing a deliberate act, and name an owner before you share it.
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Inheriting a Codebase You Did Not Write
Map before you fix: trace what actually runs, ask an agent questions with checkable answers, and write down what surprised you while it still does.
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