Tracer Bullets & Prototypes
Build a thin end-to-end slice first, and throw prototypes away on purpose. Lesson 5 of Level 1: Engineering Foundations.
Level 1 · Engineering Foundations · Lesson 5 of 8
Build a thin end-to-end slice first, and throw prototypes away on purpose.
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- Meet ShopFlow: The System You Will Architect
- DRY Is About Knowledge, Not Code
- Orthogonality: Change One Thing, Break One Thing
- Contracts, Assertions & Crashing Early
- Tracer Bullets & Prototypes
- Reversibility: Don’t Bet the Company on One Decision
- Debugging Like an Engineer
- Automate Everything: Version Control, Builds & Pipelines