Schleifer: Landing code feels like 'death by a thousand paper cuts'
Ellie Schleifer · Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now · Dec 18, 2021 · at 1:23
Ellie Schleifer, co-founder of developer infrastructure startup Trunk.io, outlines the core friction developer tooling companies aim to solve in scaling engineering organizations.
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“Once you hit like any amount of scale in your organization landing code gets really hard. It's tedious. I kind of describe it as like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
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