Ideas for modern coding

by sebsonconferences

If starting a new web project follow some basic principles

• Start with deploy code – It must be deployable from moment 0
• Use Unit- and Functionaltests
• The deployed code is testable and thereby you can verify it
• Use Virtual machines to recreate the live environment
• All is in GIT – dev and ops code
• Use cont. integration and cont. deployment from moment 0
• Static analyze the code – it’s cheap
• Build in monitoring and logging
• Whatever you do, write some docs, build them automatically

I think I will try this. Using this one would end up with a recreatable environment, that 5 years later, everyone who wants to use the software, can recreate. It’s not ma a magic bullet, but I think it could speed up a lot of things heavily.

A day setup can save you a lot of worries. The less you depend on things made “by hand” and if you put something aside for a while, you will be able to return easily.