PlunderStruck

Get shared mutable state right inside one process — choosing between immutability, an atomic, a mutex and a channel; memory ordering and…

Make the arbitrary decisions in a schema explicit — what makes two records the same thing, whether a row is one thing or several, when a…

Find the actual cause of an admitted failure instead of a plausible one using a systematic empirical method grounded in Agans and Zeller…

Make the network between server and client fast — cutting round trips rather than bytes, connection reuse and TLS handshake cost, choosing…

Keep code alive when its dependencies misbehave — timeouts on every remote call, circuit breakers, bulkheads, bounded pools and queries…

Write code that resists attack — parameterizing rather than escaping, encoding for the right output context, checking authorization per…

Define what "working" means and decide what deserves to wake someone up — service level indicators and objectives, error budgets as a…

Write SQL and design indexes that stay fast as data grows — composite index column ordering, keeping predicates sargable, avoiding…

Choose test cases and assertions that can expose regressions rather than merely execute code.

Structure tests around observable behavior and realistic dependency boundaries — choosing between a real object, a stub, and a mock…