https://arashtaher.com/tags/engineering/ Recent content in Engineering on Arash Taher Hugo en-us Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:19:54 +0000 https://arashtaher.com/blog/just-give-me-a-cookbook/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:19:54 +0000 https://arashtaher.com/blog/just-give-me-a-cookbook/ <p>One of the biggest problems I have working in a big company is the amount of documentation, and the expectation that everyone has the time, energy, and mental bandwidth to go through <em>very detailed documents</em>.</p> <p>In many cases I just want a <strong>step-by-step guide</strong>. Give me a clear and concrete layer of abstraction on top of what you’ve built, and let me use it. I don’t need to know how your system handles configuration, or what the topology of the architecture looks like. Just give me a cookbook I can follow so I can get the thing I need to do done.</p>