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Notes on onboarding and developer experience

We’re writing these up as we build. First posts land at launch \u2014 leave your email on the contact page and we’ll send them over.

Onboarding

Why “time to first commit” is the metric nobody tracks

Most engineering orgs measure sprint velocity closely and onboarding speed not at all. Here's what changes when you start.

Coming soon
DevEx

The hidden cost of senior developers answering the same question twice

A rough model for how many hours a 40-person engineering org loses each month to repetitive Slack threads.

Coming soon
Documentation

Your wiki isn't stale. It's just not being reviewed by anyone new

New hires are the only people reading your internal docs end-to-end. That makes them your best documentation QA.

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Compliance

SOC2 audits and engineer certification: a practical checklist

What auditors actually ask for when it comes to proving engineers understand your compliance-sensitive code paths.

Coming soon