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This is a ready-to-use set of lightweight templates for recording why technical decisions were made, so the reasoning survives even if your one developer leaves. Ask your developer to keep a simple record like this in the repo from day one. It is the cheapest, most durable form of the documentation that lowers your bus factor.
Architecture Decision Records: Templates and Examples
From GitHub (joelparkerhenderson) by Joel Parker Henderson Repo with templates
- Short written records of key decisions keep the why from living in one head
- Templates make the habit cheap enough to actually maintain
- A new engineer reads these to get up to speed without the old one
