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At a previous job, I was the only person to document architecture structure and design choices in a document in each repo I worked on. They turned out to be ver
by jjice 6y ago
At a previous job, I was the only person to document architecture structure and design choices in a document in each repo I worked on. They turned out to be very helpful for the new employees we took on over my time there. While that's a great plus, the real reason I wrote those was for myself because there is no way in hell I'll remember how to deploy this app to a new EB instance.
- trentnix 6y agoThat describes my motivation for writing documentation perfectly. In my last job, I wrote documentation so I could quickly get back into the context of the different problems I was working on. Context switching was a real challenge in that environment and I referred to my own documentation frequently. And sometimes, writing documentation helped me better understand the problem I was working similar to the idea that teaching a topic is a great way to learn.