Documentation (document the "why"). Loose coupling (this goes for databases, programming libraries, languages and paradigms, and operating systems as well as fu

Documentation (document the "why"). Loose coupling (this goes for databases, programming libraries, languages and paradigms, and operating systems as well as function interfaces). Design data structures first. Make everything a program. Make every program a filter. Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer Many architecture tips here: https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup