Anthropic engineers share nine practical lessons from hundreds of Claude Code Skills, covering folder‑based design, nine skill categories, the importance of Gotchas, description as a trigger, giving Claude code, memory handling, flexible hooks, and team distribution strategies.
Drawing from three and a half years of DevOps experience, this guide compiles critical operational practices—ranging from cautious command execution and strict change control to robust backup, security hardening, continuous monitoring, performance tuning, and a disciplined mindset—to help engineers avoid costly outages and data loss.
This article explains the reasons for splitting monolithic applications, outlines multi‑dimensional preparation, defines service boundaries, details DB vertical and horizontal splitting, global ID generation, migration steps, cut‑over strategies, consistency guarantees, and stability measures to ensure a successful transformation.
This article outlines why and how to split monolithic applications and databases, covering preparation, boundary definition, migration steps, DB sharding strategies, consistency guarantees, and operational safeguards to ensure a smooth transition to a more modular, scalable architecture.
