Singleton: Stripe prioritizes incident remediations over planned roadmap work
David Singleton · Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe) · May 4, 2023 · at 36:04
David Singleton, CTO of Stripe, explains how the company allocates engineering bandwidth to fix operational failures and maintain platform reliability.
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“And so that means that we identify incident remediations. That's what we call those. And we prioritize those carefully, and most of them, the ones that matter, actually get prioritized before other work on the roadmap.”
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