Philosophy

The whole motivation behind Novel was to make it easy for engineers to start and maintain convention but allow enough escape hatches for growth. The development of Novel follows the same vein.

Monolith-First

Learn the domains of the business as safe as possible

Low Overhead

Make use of as little dependencies and managed service as possible

Security-first

Be paranoid of data coming in or out

Simple Interfaces

Consistent and small interfaces

Transparent Tooling

Wrestling with tooling costs money

Development-team Friendly

The code should be easy to jump into