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Building a great developer experience at a startup

What's this blog post about?

At incident.io, building a great developer experience is crucial for maintaining pace and delivering value to customers. Key strategies include shortening feedback loops through hot-reloading setups, speedy CI, quick code reviews, and Slack previews. Additionally, using strongly-typed languages like Go and TypeScript helps catch errors early on. Building reliable abstractions as reusable building blocks also accelerates feature development. Lastly, making bug-finding easy by leveraging realistic dev environments, traces, sourcemaps, and structured data in logs and errors contributes to faster issue resolution.

Company
Incident.io

Date published
Oct. 4, 2022

Author(s)
Lisa Karlin Curtis

Word count
1411

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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