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[[BestPractices]]
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:description: Apache Hop best practices are a set of guiding principles. These best practices apply to the way you design, run, test, deploy and maintain a Hop project.

= Best practices

== Introduction

Apache Hop gives you a large amount of freedom when deciding how to do the things you want to do.
This freedom means you can be creative and productive in arriving at the desired outcome.
So please consider the advice given on this page as tips or free advice to be taken or rejected for a particular situation.
Only you can decide what the advice is worth.

== Naming

include::../snippets/best-practices/naming-conventions.adoc[]

== Size matters

include::../snippets/best-practices/size-matters.adoc[]

== Variables

include::../snippets/best-practices/variables.adoc[]

== Logging

include::../snippets/best-practices/logging.adoc[]

== Reusable code

Organize your project so that you can reuse pipelines or workflows that require the same operations in multiple locations.

For example, this could be organized as utility folders, by using parameters or variables to add flexibility to your pippeline or workflow behavior.

include::../snippets/best-practices/mappings.adoc[]

include::../snippets/best-practices/metadata-injection.adoc[]

== Performance basics

include::../snippets/best-practices/performance-basics.adoc[]

== Loops

include::../snippets/best-practices/loops.adoc[]

== Governance

include::../snippets/best-practices/governance.adoc[]



