01Reliability First
If it breaks at night, the design was incomplete.
I plan for retries, timeouts, and restore paths before I call something done.02Automation With Control
Automate the boring parts — keep people in the loop for the risky ones.
Agents and scripts get limited tools, clear permissions, and logs you can audit later.03Measurable Outcomes
If we cannot measure it, we are guessing.
I prefer structured logs, clean event IDs, and health checks over dashboards that look busy.04Security By Design
Security is easier when it is built into the first version.
Least privilege, secret handling, and input validation from day one — not as a cleanup sprint.05Maintainable Architecture
Someone else (or future you) should understand it without a detective novel.
Clear boundaries, simple contracts, and notes on the decisions that matter.06Data Before Optimization
Clean data first. Clever optimization second.
Especially in ads and AI — bad events and weak schemas waste every optimization pass.