All too often, we codify our standards and processes for architecture, testing, deployment, and infrastructure management in prose, storing them in Word documents that are uploaded somewhere. The problem is that engineers who are building new applications or environments often don’t know that these documents exist, or they don’t have the time to implement the documented standards. The result is they create their own tools and processes, with all the disappointing outcomes we’d expect: fragile, insecure, and unmaintainable applications and environments that are expensive to run, maintain, and
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