Production Knowledge Hub

Reusable Production Knowledge

Checklists, playbooks, worksheets, and decision matrices distilled from 20+ years of building and maintaining production software. Every resource represents reusable production knowledge from real platform builds — not generic theory.

Built from production architecture work, not textbooks. Autonomous AI execution validated by principal engineering judgment.

Decision MatrixAPIs

API Design Decision Matrix

A decision matrix for choosing versioning, idempotency, and auth patterns so your REST, GraphQL, or webhook APIs stay reliable under real integration load.

Decision MatrixView Resource
PlaybookPerformance

Database Performance Playbook

A diagnostic playbook for finding missing indexes, eliminating N+1 queries, and wiring read-through caching on high-traffic MySQL and PostgreSQL systems.

Step-by-Step PlaybookView Resource
AssessmentModernization

Legacy Modernization Assessment Guide

A framework for deciding whether to rebuild, refactor, or retire a legacy system, then mapping an incremental migration path that contains risk and scope creep.

Guided AssessmentView Resource
ChecklistDevOps

Production Readiness Checklist

A pre-launch checklist covering environment parity, backups, monitoring, and rate-limiting so releases ship without 2 a.m. incident pages.

Pre-Launch ChecklistView Resource
ChecklistArchitecture

Technical Due Diligence Checklist

An audit framework for inherited codebases that surfaces scalability limits, licensing liabilities, and single points of failure before you sign or invest.

Interactive ChecklistView Resource
ChecklistSecurity

Security Review Checklist

A review protocol for payload validation, auth boundaries, transport controls, and CI-integrated vulnerability scanning that catches the common breach vectors early.

Interactive ChecklistView Resource
TemplatePerformance

Code Review Checklist

A review template that moves pull requests past style nitpicks to correctness, edge cases, and performance anti-patterns like N+1 queries and missing error handling.

Review TemplateView Resource

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