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Engineering docs

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What is in the engineering docs

Engineering knowledge disappears unless someone writes it down. These templates cover the documents teams return to most: how a system was designed, how to run it and what happened when it broke.

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Together it covers technical design doc, software architecture doc, runbook, incident postmortem, and api documentation and 3 more documents.

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What does the engineering docs include?

35 templates across 8 kinds of document, listed in the order most people need them: technical design doc, software architecture doc, runbook, and incident postmortem and more.

Do I have to use the whole engineering docs?

No. Start with technical design doc and add the others as the work calls for them.

Which tools does the engineering docs work in?

Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Docs, and Microsoft Word. All 35 templates are free, with no account or email needed.

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