The problem with "best practice" is that what's best practice is so contextual to a particular company, team, stack, etc... Every customization makes the relati

The problem with "best practice" is that what's best practice is so contextual to a particular company, team, stack, etc... Every customization makes the relativity of "best" less and less relevant. The problem with "standard" is that there are very few rigid and obvious standards in this industry that anyone can carve out decision matrices for. Ideally, we'd proliferate some of these posts that talk about good patterns, the context they matter in, and what kind of tradeoffs they result in.