All valuable ideas mentioned here come from the great books, talks and websites listed below - and from the many great engineers I had the pleasure to work with during my career - thank you! 🙏
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin.
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse by Dan Ward
Maintainable Javascript by Nicholas C. Zakas
Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin - Architecture: The Lost Years
Ian Cooper - TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong
Drew Colthorp - Understanding TypeScript's Structural Type System
Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy
Martin Fowler - The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture