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Code Review Checklist: 12 Checks from a Consulting Lens
Code review is not just style. This checklist focuses on operability, security boundaries, and delivery risk for B2B teams.
Code Review Checklist
Architecture & boundaries
- Single responsibility, sensible dependency direction
- Versioned API contracts, consistent error codes
- Config and secrets externalized
Reliability
- Retries, timeouts, idempotency
- Logs traceable by request id
- Edge cases and empty states
Security
- Input validation and output encoding
- Authorization enforced server-side
- No sensitive data in logs
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