# futurice/backend-best-practices

An evolving description of general best practices for backend development.

Repository: https://github.com/futurice/backend-best-practices
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/futurice-backend-best-practices
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: best-practices
Last push: 2019-09-20T06:42:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4352, "days_push": 2539, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2358, forks 282 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:40.766180+00:00)

## What it is
An evolving, community-maintained guide from Futurice describing general best practices for backend development, covering persistence, environments, security, and monitoring. It is a documentation/checklist resource rather than runnable software.

## Use cases
- learn backend development best practices
- find a checklist for releasing a backend service
- decide between SQL and NoSQL for data persistence
- harden backend security like secrets and password storage
- set up development, staging, and production environments
- plan application monitoring and status pages

## When to choose
- you want opinionated, practical guidelines for building and operating backend services
- you need checklists for releases, responsibilities, and security reviews
- you are onboarding developers into backend engineering practices

## When to avoid
- you need runnable code, libraries, or tooling rather than written guidance
- you require a specific, versioned standard or compliance framework
- you need language-specific backend advice

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools, security, monitoring, deployment
- domain: backend, developer-tools, documentation, security
- platform: cloud
- tags: best-practices, checklists, backend-development, guidelines, engineering-culture, devops, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- futurice/backend-best-practices (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.766180+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:36:15.309627+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/futurice/backend-best-practices (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.766180+00:00, sha b16be9a98964)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.