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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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Lean Startup in Large Corporations: Navigating Between Innovation and Pragmatism

The Product Coalition

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. In this scenario, trying to implement the Lean Startup methodology might be like suggesting that “shortcut” to the ocean liner.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. 99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product.

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Rapid response: How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout

Intercom, Inc.

On call work like this can be a powerful customer orientated activity that connects engineers to the value customers get from your product. The quality of our alarms and on call procedures were inconsistent across teams and we were using ad hoc review processes for new and existing alarms. What we learned.

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The importance of process: How we scale sustainable engineering processes at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Principles and processes provide us with a systemic and scalable way of repeating the behaviors that we strongly believe will lead to positive outcomes, and help us to avoid repeating past mistakes”. Processes help scale an engineering organization. As an engineering leader, what are you ultimately responsible for?

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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

Today, our systems dynamically scale to serve about 50,000 web requests per second at peak, 26,000 background jobs per second, and 11,000 public API requests per second – demonstrating our ability to continuously scale to meet the requirements of modern enterprises. You need to store multiple millions of user records. Can Intercom do that?