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A print and digital magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale. Published by @stripe from 2017 to 2021.
Joined October 2016
It's here! Get all 19 issues of Increment as a limited-edition bundle: https://t.co/XXp7SP5e14
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New limited-edition bundle coming soon to https://t.co/PnE0wVZ0pN đ
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Purchase subscriptions to and individual issues of Increment, Stripeâs magazine for software teams.
We published the last @IncrementMag issue last year. My favorite easter egg is that the spines of the catalog together form a nice snapshot of the evolving GDP of the internet. đ
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đ From the archives: @elizabethminkel chronicles the development of Archive of Our Own (AO3), now 15 years old. âThis is what a website would look like if you didnât have to care about most of the things that you usually have to care about.â https://t.co/cCWOeutg8n
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The true story of what happened when a group of fanfiction writers built a Hugo awardâwinningâand resolutely, delightfully amateurâweb publishing platform.
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âManagement work often consists of building up your teamâs resilience to organizational stormsâand your own resilience, too.â â@lara_hogan
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Strategies for nurturing that feel-good sense of accomplishment when doing largely invisible work.
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âFrontend development is at the intersection of art and logic, business and expression, left brain and right brain, design and nerdery. I love it.ââ@chriscoyier
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âThis is where observability really shines: It enhances your ability to ask questions of your systems, including ones you hadnât originally thought to ask.â â@glitchâs @Mads_Hartmann
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A chronicle of Glitchâs efforts to gain visibility into its production systemsâand make them more reliable.
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âSuccessful onboarding isnât about learning the codebase at light speed or pushing out new features as quickly as possible; itâs about building a foundation of relationships and psychological safety.â â@alexandras_dev
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Guidance for centering trust, psychological safety, and a sense of community from a new hireâs first day.
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âReleasing pieces of your infrastructure as independent projects helps create technological honesty in your stack.â â@sophiebits
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Whenâand whyâshould a business release an open-source project?
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"Weâre not designing to judge peopleâs coding practices, but to help them solve problems." â@old_sound
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Empathetic design thinking can reshape the way we build APIsâand the way others build with them.
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âThe long history of cities offers useful models for open-source softwareânot only for what can work, but for what is possible.â â@devonzuegel
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âGood plans not only light the path forward, but also show you where not to tread, making the consequences of wrong paths clearer.â â@hillelogram
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On thorny software projects, formal specifications can serve as beacons that illuminate the terrain ahead.
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âCrafting a roadmap that pairs engineersâ personal objectives with product and company goals can yield measurable gains both for the business and its people.â â@meowlissa10
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âAssuming teams donât need a clear objective to work toward is like handing a list of turn-by-turn directions to a driver and expecting them to understand where they should end up by nightfall.â â@ph1
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âIndividual contributors are often especially well-positioned to identify high-impact areas of work, yet theyâre often left out of the planning process altogether. Whatâs an IC to do?â â@davidnoelromas
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âWith wicked problems, the trick is to surface and reconcile diverse viewpoints, making multiple perspectives explicit so all parties can develop a shared understanding of contentious issues.â â@kailashawati
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âIn business, building wealth is something to be done as soon as possible. Likewise, doing the fundamental work to make our systems stronger and more efficient should be viewed as worthy of up-front investment.â â@leemaynassery
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If we bake addressing tech debt into our plans, could it become an opportunity to build abundance into our systems?
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âOpen-source maintainers have learned to leverage and share plans to generate energy and exuberance, incorporate user perspectives into the prioritization process, and communicate with their communities.â â@captainsafia
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âWhere agile champions continuous experimentation and iteration, milestones advocate for letting work come to a finishing point. Together, they can produce a steady, sustainable rhythm.â â@mellogood
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âDigital spaces are getting more and more public. Closed user groups and forums are switching to open communities and massive networks. Customer support is no longer private. Our goal is to be a part of these discussions.â â@youtrackâs Elena Pishkova
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âBy understanding tooling as a complement to our planning processes rather than an alternative to them, we can better tackle the technical and human challenges of software development.â â@mikiobraun
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