Essays, dispatches, and post-mortems from the people building Stradiva.
Below a certain headcount, every internal tool you build is a product the company is shipping to its only customer — itself. Here's how to know when to stop.
You can't fix on-call by paging more carefully. You fix it by giving the on-call engineer fewer reasons to open the laptop.
An honest look at why deploy freezes feel safe and rarely are. Spoiler: the safest deploy schedule is the one you don't need.
When you have three engineers, the fourth hire is the most consequential decision of the company. Here's how I'd run it again.
A field note from our customer base. The trends we're watching, the trends that surprised us, and the ones we're ignoring on purpose.
Design teams obsess about type. Engineering teams obsess about latency. Both are right, and both are missing what their users actually feel.