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The 3 Basic Tools of Systems Engineering
- Database: PostgreSQL or Oracle if you can afford it. If you're using a NoSQL database, you fucked up somewhere.
- Queueing: if you're using a queue, again, you fucked up somewhere.
- When the first thing you do is dive into code, you are dooming yourself to either designing an unmaintainable system, or to reinvent existing tools poorly. This may be acceptable in an academic or research setting, but in a startup, it's downright foolish.
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