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How FAANG Engineers Use Decision Logs to Reduce Rework
Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden practice of decision logging — a lightweight habit that top engineers at companies like Google and Meta use to document why they chose one technical path over another. Lucas shares a specific case: a senior engineer at a streaming company who saved 80 hours of rework in a single quarter by maintaining a plain-text decision log. They contrast this with the formal Architecture Decision Record (ADR) approach, discuss the minimum viable format (date, context, options, decision, outcome), and explain how this habit builds trust and unblocks junior engineers. If…
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