Designing service templates that ship with sane auth, rate limits, and observability from day one.
Start with threat modeling
A 30-minute threat model catches more architectural risk than a week of reactive patching. Focus on trust boundaries and data classification.
Build reusable guardrails
Ship defaults for CSRF protection, secure headers, and input validation in shared middleware packages. Teams should opt out rarely and with review.
Make logs actionable
Security logs must be queryable and correlated with request IDs. Avoid noisy logs that hide meaningful events.
