Originally written with help from my team and posted at https://medium.com/usa-today-network/devops-you-build-it-you-run-it-8f972343eb8e

Originally written with help from my team and posted at https://medium.com/usa-today-network/a-culture-of-architectural-design-77ad815dfc90

Each project deserves careful thought on the design and architecture of the solution. This is something that should be done at the start of projects and for each major revision. One tool for design and architecting is to write a design doc for each major revision.

A checklist list of done criteria is helpful to avoid skipping any steps in code creation, this is the list I use for my projects. Where possible automated tools should be used to help verify good practices are followed. These tools are typically language specific so I skipped adding any here.

The password database I have been implementing in go is ready for Beta! The DB is implemented using the password safe version 3 database spec. Enough of the features for this are now working that 0.3.0 release is ready for others to test.