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Notes on buildingand runningweb projects
Practical articles on planning, building, connecting and maintaining web applications, written for the people commissioning the work as well as the people doing it.
- · 3 minExisting codebasesLayers: Logic, Data, DeploymentTaking over an unfinished codebase: what the first week should produceA practical sequence for inheriting a web application from a previous developer: getting access, getting it running, an honest assessment and a clear next step.
- · 3 minIntegrationsLayers: Integrations, LogicWebhooks that survive production: verification, idempotency and retriesWhy webhook integrations that work in testing fail in production, and the handful of design decisions that make them reliable.
- · 3 minScopingLayers: Interface, IntegrationsWhat to send a development partner before asking for a quoteThe documents, access and decisions that make a development estimate reliable, and the gaps that tend to turn a fixed quote into a change request.