Chapter 3 — Build vs. Buy
Purpose
[stub: build-vs-buy]
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| Author | Amit Singh |
| Scope | system-design |
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CI/CD Platform Engineering
A book-shaped table of contents for CI/CD platform engineering: pipeline foundations, build/artifact/delivery platforms, GitHub Actions end to end (workflow mechanics through enterprise governance), Argo Workflows, Tekton, Jenkins, release engineering, platform security, observability, reliability, enterprise governance, and MAANG interview preparation — cross-linking existing tech/kubernetes/platform-engineering-fundamentals/system-design notes instead of duplicating them.
System Design
Principal/Staff-level system design reference collection for MAANG interview preparation — observability pipelines, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and beyond.
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Chapter 1 — Architectural Decision Records
Why an ADR outlives the meeting that produced it, and the Context/Decision/Consequences structure that makes one actually useful later.
Chapter 6 — Engineering Economics
Framing technical decisions in terms of cost, risk, and opportunity cost so they're defensible to a non-engineering stakeholder.
Chapter 2 — Evolutionary Architecture
Designing for incremental change rather than a big-bang rewrite, and the fitness functions that keep an architecture from drifting.
Chapter 9 — Executive Communication
Translating an architecture decision into the risk/cost/timeline framing an executive audience actually needs to approve it.