Etsy's Take on Documentation

This week, my team and me are busy polishing our documentation. These are the markdown files in the docs/ folder of our git repo and the confluence pages for communicating across teams. These are the functional specs that people reference daily and the SRE Playbook entries we pray we don’t need to look at. We have documentation in all shapes and sizes. When there is so much stuff to manage, making sure that documentation doesn’t become stale or irrelevant can easily become cumbersome.

Joining the 'Hive'

Back in May, I began my Professional Experience Year (PEY). PEY is a program offered by the University of Toronto allowing students with a technical background to work at a company. This is analogous to the co-op programs in other Canadian universities (except that it’s one year long). I decided that I would spend my PEY at Ecobee.