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Engineering principles
We’ve always used to build . Over the years, we’ve also adopted practices from the open source community for our own internal collaboration needs. Learn more about how we work with a global and diverse team and make informed, inclusive, and scalable decisions.
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How supports neurodiverse employees (and how your company can, too)
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How we improved availability through iterative simplification
Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of ’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in ’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.
Empowering accessibility: ’s journey building an in-house Champions program
As part of ’s dedication to accessibility, we expanded our internal accessibility program and scaled up our assessment process to help remove or lower barriers for users with disabilities. Then, we empowered employees from various disciplines to drive accessibility efforts within their teams.
How uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day
Here’s how merge queue transformed the way deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.
Bringing npm registry services to Codespaces
The npm engineering team recently transitioned to using Codespaces for local development for npm registry services. This shift to Codespaces has substantially reduced the friction of our inner development loop and boosted developer productivity.
’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility
The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.
How ’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development
Our latest solution to the ubiquitous engineering problem of integration testing in a distributed service ecosystem here at .
How to communicate like a engineer: our principles, practices, and tools
Learn more about how we use to build , how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.
How we work: inclusive retrospectives for the Accessibility leadership team
Learn about tools and processes the Accessibility leadership team uses for retrospectives that fully engage every team member.
How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with Projects
Hear from Grafana Labs’ Armand Grillet about how his team uses Projects.
How the Docs team uses Projects
Explore how the Docs team uses Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing.
Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with Actions
What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!
How coordinates product releases with Projects and Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.
What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.
How we use to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
