Just a list of antipatterns I'm not going to elaborate on in no particular order
- Boiling the ocean
- Big bang deliveries
- Developer portals
- Abstracting the cloud from your engineers
- Multi-cloud
- Implementing tooling beyond your maturity
- Ignoring boring, simple fixes in favour of shiny tech
- Run the company on your laptop
- Concurrent microservice development without contract testing
- Access control that isn't role-based
- Depriving staff of agency
- Security teams
- Conflating one-way doors with two-way doors (decisions)
- Using features simply because they exist
- Architects
- Gitops
- Git branch strategies that aren't trunk-based
- Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
- Liveness checks that rely on downstream systems
- Thinking load balancers and DNS aren't good enough
- Telling yourself you'll make that pipeline stage automatic later on
- Monorepos
- Troubleshooting through the pipeline
- A lack of care for how clear naming of things is necessary for basic communication
- Not forcing people to use open communication channels