Docs-as-code at Etsy

The question of documentation—not just formats and standards, but the tools and processes that can make documenting code a normal...

Afshin Mehrabani

Apr 13, 2023

A Customer-Focused Approach to Tooling

One year after Etsy's Frontend Engineering Group successfully swapped JavaScript Unit Testing tools, it was time to tackle another...

Nathan Thompson

Jul 14, 2022

Why We Relaunched Code as Craft

A few weeks ago, we relaunched our engineering blog, Code as Craft, and I want to share the story of why we did that. If you’re...

Najla Elmachtoub

May 3, 2022

Why Writing Is Important for Engineers

A few weeks ago we relaunched this Code as Craft blog, which hasn’t seen significant change since we first rolled it out in...

Mike Fisher

Mar 31, 2022

Keeping IT Support Human during WFH

Image: Human Connection, KatieWillDesign on EtsyHi! We’re the Etsy Engineering team that supports core IT and AV capabilities...

Seth Liber

May 6, 2020

What it’s Like to Intern at Etsy?

I secretly like seeing people’s surprise when I told them that I chose to intern at Etsy because it was the only company that...

Kelly Shen

Mar 18, 2019

Why Diversity Is Important to Etsy

We recently published our company’s Guiding Principles. These are five common guideposts that apply to all organizations and...

Mike Fisher

Jan 7, 2019

Etsy's Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems

In 2012, I wrote a post for the Code As Craft blog about how we approach learning from accidents and mistakes at Etsy. I wrote...

John Allspaw

Nov 17, 2016

Being an Effective Ally to Women and Non-Binary People

This post is based on a talk and workshop that Toria and Ian gave at Etsy’s Dublin office in August. Etsy has a strong set of...

Toria Gibbs

Oct 19, 2016

Recommended Reading for Allies

Etsy believes in the power of diversity. We believe that having diverse perspectives will help us make better decisions and build...

Toria Gibbs

Aug 10, 2016

Putting the Dev in Devops: Bringing Software Engineering to Operations Infrastructure Tooling

At Etsy, the vast majority of our computing happens on physical servers that live in our own data centers. Since we don’t do...

Ryn Daniels

Feb 22, 2016

Quality Matters: The Benefits of QA-Focused Retros

Retrospectives (retros) are meetings that take place after every major project milestone to help product teams at Etsy improve...

Arylee McSweaney

Feb 8, 2016