Engineering Practices

The habits that keep a codebase healthy over years.

Part: 08 · Craft & Leadership · Priority: High

Taxonomy

Second-level groups and their articles. Each article is a standalone entry following the template; its filename is the kebab-case form of the title.

Readable Code

• Naming
• Function & Module Size
• Comments & Intent

Change & Debt

• Refactoring
• Managing Technical Debt
• Legacy Code Strategy

Design Principles

• Abstraction & Leaky Abstractions
• Coupling & Cohesion
• SOLID for Frontend
• YAGNI & Simplicity

Review

• Code Review as a Discipline
• Giving & Receiving Feedback

Robustness

• Error-Handling Philosophy
• Defensive vs Offensive Programming
• Graceful Degradation

Knowledge

• Documentation Practices
• Knowledge Sharing & Bus Factor

Interfaces

• API & Interface Stability
• Backward Compatibility
• Deprecation Strategy

Index only. One canonical home per concept — overlapping ideas are owned here and cross-linked from other domains, never duplicated.