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title: "Key takeaways | Grafana Labs"
description: "The most important principles to remember"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Principles to remember

1. **Dashboards deserve Infrastructure as Code rigor.** Version control, review, and automation produce a solid dashboarding experience.
2. **Strong typing catches errors early.** Broken configuration fails at compile time, not in production.
3. **Stable UIDs enable idempotent deploys.** Same UID means update, not duplicate.
4. **The pipeline is the source of truth.** Code on main equals what’s deployed.