[munchbunny]

When I saw title of the post I thought it would be talking about principles that you learn the first time you have to write production code, such as reliability, maintainability, validation (testing, continuous integration, rollout processes), performance tuning, security, contingency planning (backups), etc. Those are definitely part of the steep learning curve right after you learn to sling code but before you are able to work in a team setting on apps/services with substantial usage.

I suppose the actual contents of the article makes sense for apps on a specific platform, but I feel like there's a more generalizable set of lessons that fit the bill for "all of the problems you get once your hacked together app/website/service has real users."