Growth Blocks Overview
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Growth blocks are small, composable units (functions, jobs, APIs) with explicit contracts and observability to automate repeatable growth tasks.
Key principles
Section titled “Key principles”- Single responsibility per block.
- Contract-first: schema for inputs/outputs and error cases.
- Observable: logs, metrics, and traces per run.
Quality checks
Section titled “Quality checks”- Versioned interface with semantic changes logged.
- Health checks and retries documented.
- Local stub and test fixture available.
Common pitfalls
Section titled “Common pitfalls”- Hidden network calls and side effects.
- Coupling to environment state.
- Missing rate-limit and backoff policies.
When to use / not to
Section titled “When to use / not to”Use to standardize recurring tasks (syncs, enrichment, scoring). Not for ad-hoc one-off scripts without reuse.