• Idempotency

  • DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)

  • Forward and Backward Compatibility

  • Automation (CI/CD, Deployment)

  • Test Validation (Unit, Integration, E2E tests)

  • Observability and Alerting (Logs, Metrics, Monitoring)

  • Fault Tolerance (Retry, Dead-letter queues, Graceful failure handling)

  • Documentation (Code, Pipeline behavior, Runbooks)

  • Version Control and Rollback Mechanism

  • Environment Separation (Dev, Test, Prod)

  • Data Validation and Quality Checks

  • Security and Access Control (IAM, Encryption)