00: Author's Note & Prologue

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The Next Guys: A Practitioner Archive [Unabridged Audiobook]

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Welcome to The Next Guys: A Practitioner Archive.

You walk into a new role, sit down at a new desk, and inherit a system held together by undocumented expertise, orphaned data feeds, and anonymous sticky notes. Everything looks fine on the surface. The technical debt is completely hidden until a critical incident occurs, at which point you realize nobody actually owns the architecture.

This is a book about what happens next.

In this opening file, Anthony Veltri outlines the purpose of this practitioner archive and sets the baseline for the operational realities we are about to dismantle.

Resources & Artifacts: This entire audio archive is ungated. If you want to follow along with the visual architecture, read the text version, or secure a physical copy for your desk, visit the central repository at: anthonyveltri.com/thenextguys

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