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Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

An overview of the tools and environment Stripe engineers used to write and test code, as of 2019 or so.

I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that developer experience, and since leaving, I’ve found myself repeatedly describing features of that environment to friends and colleagues. Many of the design choices were made with the goal of enabling the devprod team to more-easily and consistently support and monitor the tooling, and allow for centralized debugging and resolution of issues instead of pushing it onto individual engineers. In an environment that included a much-larger variety of languages, runtimes, patterns, it doesn’t make sense to specialize as much for any one, and infrastructure teams need to build more-generic tooling that treats user code as more of a opaque box.

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