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Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph builds speed in remote engineering through high agency, ownership of customer problems and small validation steps rather than chains of instruction.
Operating system
  1. Customer problem
  2. ownership by the doer
  3. smallest useful release
  4. feedback
  5. smoothness
  6. speed and scale.

System principles

  • Make the person doing the work the default decision owner.
  • Cut scope, not quality.
  • Own customer value, not just output.

Tensions and trade-offs

  • High agency shortens decision distance but can pull teams apart without shared context.
  • Early shipping accelerates learning but temporary solutions can become permanent debt.

PRACTICES

How Sourcegraph builds its operating system

Primary sources

Public HandbookEngineering PrinciplesAll-Remote Journey