Common conventions and practices

There are a set of common conventions and practices for deployment that not every developer may know but are obvious for anyone who did some operations in their life. As explained in this chapter's introduction, it is crucial to know at least a few of them, even if you are not responsible for code deployment and operations, because it will allow you to make better design decisions during the development.

Let's take a look at the filesystem hierarchy in the next section.

The filesystem hierarchy

The most obvious conventions that may come into your mind are probably about filesystem hierarchy and user naming. If you are looking for such suggestions here, then you will be disappointed...