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Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas

Product Talk

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. But this should give you an idea of what assumptions look like. What Are Desirability Assumptions? It’s how we evaluate which ideas will work and which won’t. But before we can test our assumptions, we have to identify them.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. One of the blog posts was about this Yahoo!

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Adding a work trial to your interview process

Lenny Rachitsky

What advice do you have for setting up a successful work trial process? When I asked folks on Twitter who else they’ve seen do a great job with work trials, I learned that trials have also been a longtime practice at Automattic , Gumroad , Auth0 (now part of Okta ), PostHog , and a number of other companies.

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The Importance of Architectural Approaches

Split

Engineers love to crank out code. The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. This is a pure statement of the importance of learning by doing. Why Care About Software Architecture?

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat.

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Customer Onboarding Cost in SaaS: Build vs Buy Approach

Userpilot

In this article, we’re going to explore the ‘build vs buy’ argument, and break down what that means for creating a powerful onboarding experience. Do you have engineering capacity? What are your security considerations? What’s your appetite for cost? Let’s get into it!

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Try a Semantic Approach to Naming GitHub Repositories

Modus Create

I had my own ideas around what conventions made sense, although these are influenced by the type of work I do. I had my own ideas around what conventions made sense, although these are influenced by the type of work I do. An example of what this might look like would be: project1-restapi-python. Enter semantics.

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