tl;dr:A complete guide to evaluating a build vs. buy decision for products transactional notification system. This piece covers the challenges faced by teams evaluating whether to build or buy a notification system, what notification systems look like at scale and the requirements they share, how to use a framework to assess any build vs buy decision, how to apply that framework against the build decision for a notification system.
tl;dr:Engineering teams are increasingly outsourcing non-core, yet critical parts of their stack to third-party vendors. This post delves into the challenges and emerging solutions of using third-party services in your stack. It discusses five key principles of modern developer tools: code-based resource management, source control management, rich type definitions, CI/CD integration and managing tools as part of your deployment lifecycle.
tl;dr:Engineering teams are increasingly outsourcing non-core, yet critical parts of their stack to third-party vendors. This post delves into the challenges and emerging solutions of using third-party services in your stack. It discusses five key principles of modern developer tools: code-based resource management, source control management, rich type definitions, CI/CD integration and managing tools as part of your deployment lifecycle.
tl;dr:"Here are the principles of the modern developer tool that emerged from our own work solving customer challenges, and that we're seeing in other developer tools we use." The authors discuss the following: (1) Work with resources in code. (2) Source control management. (3) Rich type definitions. (4) Run tests locally and in your CI workflow. (5) Manage as part of your deployment lifecycle.