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Building something?
Connected products keep getting more complex, and technical debt arrives faster than anyone plans for. I write about how a small team can borrow more of what already works — the tools and the processes behind them — so development speeds up instead of bogging down.
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The thinking behind it
Three principles run through everything I send
- Borrow the process, not just the tool. A package is the visible artifact of a process — maintainers, review, CI, security response. Reuse the work, not only the code.
- Release first. Decouple the pieces so each moves at its own lifecycle. Shipping is a capability you keep, not an event you survive.
- Platform thinking. Be intentional about the foundation before you build on it. How you assemble matters more than what you assemble.
Written for capable engineers on small teams building smart hardware that senses, controls, and talks to the cloud.
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