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Blueberry IDP Guides

This directory contains conceptual guides, best practices, and topic-focused documentation for the Blueberry Internal Developer Platform.

Directory Structure

📊 Monitoring

Comprehensive monitoring and observability guides
- System metrics and KPIs
- Alert configuration and management
- Dashboard creation and usage
- Cost tracking and optimization
- Log aggregation strategies

🔍 Troubleshooting

Common issues and debugging techniques
- Error catalogs and solutions
- Performance troubleshooting
- Network debugging
- Service dependency issues

🏆 Best Practices

Recommended patterns and procedures
- Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- On-call guidelines
- Change management processes
- Communication protocols

🚀 Performance

Performance optimization and tuning
- Baseline metrics
- Optimization techniques
- Capacity planning
- Resource efficiency

🔐 Security

Security guidelines and compliance
- Access control patterns
- Security auditing
- Compliance requirements
- Default service account management

🛠️ Operations Guide

Overview of operational practices and procedures

Purpose

Guides differ from workflows in that they:
- Explain concepts and principles
- Provide background and context
- Offer multiple approaches
- Focus on understanding rather than step-by-step execution

How to Use These Guides

  1. New to a topic? Start with the overview in each section's README
  2. Solving a problem? Check troubleshooting guides first
  3. Planning changes? Review best practices before implementation
  4. Optimizing? Use performance and monitoring guides together

Contributing

When adding new guides:
1. Place in the appropriate subdirectory
2. Focus on explaining "why" not just "how"
3. Include examples and diagrams
4. Link to related workflows for implementation details
5. Keep content evergreen (avoid version-specific details)

Document ID: guides/README