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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

All the while, he’s been sharing his latest thoughts on infrastructure, devtools, management and more, on his Irrational Exuberance blog. Will Larson: When I graduated from college I was actually teaching English in Japan for a year, and that’s when I started doing a lot of tech blogging. product called Yahoo!

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. At Intercom, we call this “ Run Less Software ,” and it’s part of our technical strategy of being technically conservative.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Darragh: You wrote a blog post recently about the impact of having sponsors during your time at Microsoft. They may talk your ear off about Kubernetes or some Erlang or a niche technical project. With the architects, I talked talked about how to manage and monitor tech debt, how to develop technical strategy in terms of scaling.