Engineering docs

use this page as a structured template for your team’s engineering knowledge capture system architecture, development workflows, operational practices, and anything engineers need to work effectively update this page whenever architecture, tooling, or workflows change keeping engineering documentation accurate ensures alignment across the team architecture overview start with a high‑level diagram that explains how your system works include major components, data flow, and boundaries flowchart lr client > api api > servicea api > serviceb servicea > database serviceb > externalapi add additional diagrams as needed—for example, service boundaries, event flows, or infrastructure layouts development workflow document how engineers collaborate and ship code include create a feature branch submit a pull request review with teammates merge after approvals deploy to the appropriate environment you can supplement this with additional details branching strategy (gitflow, trunk‑based, etc ) code review expectations and standards definition of done testing requirements (unit, integration, e2e) ci/cd pipeline steps deployment procedures share consistent, repeatable instructions for deploying your product \# example deployment script npm install npm run build npm run deploy replace this with your real deployment steps or link to your deployment runbooks operational notes help engineers understand how to support the system in production runbooks for common operational tasks monitoring dashboards and alerting guidelines escalation paths during incidents logging and observability tools backup and recovery procedures best practices include any engineering standards your team follows coding conventions security practices api versioning strategy performance guidelines dependency management rules what to read next point teammates to other important internal resources team handbook docid\ lxwf 7ivqnlbou6njiovd – culture and communication norms onboarding checklist docid\ hfxtrnxwva e4 tnbt6w9 – steps for new teammates decisions (adr template) docid 8huigd0ojvinupuf21x7j – how your team records key decisions