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Alert fatigue is a common problem among engineering teams. Ask these eight questions to develop a more sustainable alerting strategy.
Engineering 8 min read
When you’re part of a team, you adopt the goals, objectives, and priorities of that team. As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time.
Engineering 6 min read
There’s plenty of advice out there on writing a good incident report, but very little of it tells you how to facilitate that critical meeting to assess and discuss the report. We revisited our incident review process to make sure we were taking every opportunity to learn.
Engineering 6 min read
How does a rapidly scaling company manage the core technologies it relies on? This is the story of how we developed and evolved a dedicated core technologies team at Intercom.
Engineering 8 min read
Thinking about how we build is as important as thinking deeply about what we build. We’ve developed the High-Performing Teams framework to continuously improve the way our R&D teams work.
Engineering 5 min read
As your company grows, so do your infrastructure costs. How can you maximize your returns while scaling your infrastructure to meet demand?
