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 # SB Engineering Guides
+The SB Engineering Guides provide a way to document processes and best practices that have established themselves over time or resulted from spikes and meetings.
+
+Rather than just capturing how we do things at SB, this repo shall also document why we do it that way in the form of discussions inside a pull request.
+
+The following table should help you decide if something should go in a guide or not:
+
+| Do                                                 | Don't                                                         |
+| ---------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Internal processes (onboarding, PR's, Jira issues) | Things that can be automated (e.g. by a linter and formatter) |
+| Link to external guides (e.g. AirBnB Style Guide)  | Write guides based on personal style / preferences            |
+| Link to external docs and tutorials                | Write everything by hand and not keep it up-to-date           |
+| Core tech stack (tools, frameworks, libraries)     | Exotic / unmaintained libraries                               | 
+
+If there is something missing or out-of-date in the guides, feel free to create a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/smashingboxes/sb-engineering-guides/issues) or a pull request (see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./frontend.md)).
+
+## Table of Contents
+- [Backend](./backend.md)
+- [DevOps](./devops.md)
+- [Frontent](./frontend.md)
+- [Mobile](./mobile.md)