Blog posts about Philosophy

Keeping IT Support Human during WFH Posted by Seth Liber on May 6, 2020 Image: Human Connection, KatieWillDesign on...

Cloud Jewels: Estimating kWh in the Cloud Posted by Emily Sommer, Mike Adler, John Perkins, Joshua Thiel, Hilary Youn...

What it’s Like to Intern at Etsy? – Part I Posted by Kelly Shen on March 18, 2019 I secretly like seeing people’s s...

Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation Posted by Paul-Jean Letourneau on October 10, 2018 Introduction Writ...

Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems Posted by John Allspaw on November 17, 2016 In 2012,...

How Etsy Uses Code “Slush” to Manage Development During the Holidays Posted by Jason Shen on November 16, 2016 Note...

Being an Effective Ally to Women and Non-Binary People Posted by Toria Gibbs and Ian Malpass on October 19, 2016 Thi...

API First Transformation at Etsy – Operations Posted by Stefanie Schirmer on September 26, 2016 This is the second ...

API First Transformation at Etsy – Concurrency Posted by Stefanie Schirmer on September 6, 2016 At Etsy we have bee...

Recommended Reading for Allies Posted by Toria Gibbs and Ian Malpass on August 10, 2016 Etsy believes in the power o...

Leveling Up Your Organization With System Reviews Posted by John Goulah on December 21, 2015 One of Etsy’s core eng...

Rebuilding the Foundation of Etsy’s Seller Tools Posted by Russ Posluszny, Jason Huff, Jessica Harllee, Justin Donato...

Expanding Diversity Efforts with Hacker School Posted by Mike Brittain on September 25, 2014 Today we’re proud to a...

Just Culture resources Posted by Ian Malpass on July 18, 2014 This is a (very) incomplete list of resources that ma...

Re-Exploring New Technologies: The Turbo Encabulator Posted by John Allspaw on April 1, 2013 One of the things that...

The Engineer Exchange Program Posted by Marc Hedlund on September 10, 2012 Co-authors: Marc Hedlund, SVP, Product ...

Building websites with science Posted by Peter Seibel on June 21, 2012 At Etsy, we want to use data to inform what ...

The Etsy Way Posted by Chad Dickerson on February 13, 2012 As you might imagine, we at Etsy get a lot of “can I pic...