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Here’s a taste of Joseph’s priority list about standardizing processes:

1. Deployment process

Make sure that your deployment is repeatable and consistent regardless of which developer is doing it. Document it first, and when it’s done, you can automate it in large parts.
2. Monitoring

Monitoring gives your engineers metrics about the code’s performance in production. There are great tools out there that are easy to set up, and save you a lot of time and energy in the long run. Make sure to have it send your team a message when something breaks.
3. Incident response

Things break in tech, there is no way around it. So you need to put a standard protocol with clear steps they can follow to save time when fixing it. If you do this right, even junior engineers will be effective at incident response.
The list goes on, and there are many other tips and stories from Joseph.

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