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Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Decision Log
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a decision log — a lightweight document that records every major technical decision, who made it, why, and what alternatives were considered. They walk through a real example from a fintech startup that used a decision log to save months of rework during a platform migration. The hosts discuss how decision logs prevent knowledge loss, speed up onboarding, and make architecture reviews less political. They also touch on the common failure modes: logs that become too bureaucratic or too sparse. By the end, you'll have a concrete template you could implement…
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