Use What Works

Organizations should generally use existing, proven, and sustainable solutions to common problems rather than developing, maintaining, and running their own.
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Developers

Building the future with proven tools

Learn why using established solutions makes you more valuable and your code more maintainable.

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Engineering Leaders

Guiding teams to sustainable success

Discover how proven infrastructure reduces risk and empowers your team to focus on what matters.

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Business Leaders

Stop waste and reduce risk

Understand how budgets and approval processes nudge technical groups into wasteful territory.

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Software Maintainers

Sustaining the software the world runs on

Whether you maintain an OSS project or depend on one, sustainability requires action from both sides.

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Further Reading

Articles and talks that shaped Use What Works.

Choose Boring Technology

Dan McKinley

Build or Adopt? Stop Building Your Own Plumbing

Shawn Wildermuth

Introducing UseWhatWorks.org

Dylan Beattie with Chris Woodruff
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