Pre Defined Standards for Acquia

The Code Quality Gate: Implementing strict PHP CodeSniffer (PHPCS) rulesets automated within the CI/CD pipeline to reject non-compliant code before it merges, ensuring that technical debt is managed proactively, not retroactively.

Security by Design: Adhering to Acquia’s rigorous security standards, including the mandatory use of sanitized inputs and the Shield module for non-production environments, ensuring the application is audit-ready from day one.

The BLT Advantage: Leveraging Build and Launch Tool (BLT) to enforce a standardized project structure and automation workflow. This removes "works on my machine" issues by ensuring every developer and build server uses the exact same testing and deployment scripts.

Performance on the Edge: Writing code that respects the Varnish caching layer. Standards dictate that personalized content must be lazy-loaded or hole-punched (BigPipe) to ensure the master page remains cacheable, preventing backend overload.