What small tweaks have you made to improve your frontend or backend projects?

This question is quite broad, so it helps to pinpoint specific pain points in your current setup. Have you thought about improving processes, testing, or deployments? Some useful ideas are setting up end-to-end testing, optimizing Dockerfiles for layer caching, and automating semantic versioning. Also, consider providing shared templates for pipelines across repos and enhancing observability by using dashboards.

One of the best small changes I made was switching Flake8 and Pylint for Ruff. It's noticeably faster! Also, consider replacing pip with uv for package management. It really speeds things up!

One simple but effective change we made was to emit the version string as an environment variable, so our monitoring tools can easily detect deployments. This small step helps a lot when diagnosing issues!

We managed to make our CI pipeline faster with some tweaks, which had a huge impact on our workflow!

Improving observability is key—along with the actual code improvements. If you don’t have telemetry and monitoring in place, it’s hard to figure out what changes need to be prioritized. For example, targeting the slowest SQL queries can really help during planning.