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At Squarespace, our mission is to provide creative tools that help anyone bring their ideas to life. In this blog you'll learn about the ups and downs of our engineering endeavors.

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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt

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What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?

“Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process

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RFCs, also called Design Documents, let us describe software designs before implementation. But how do you make sure that RFCs get deep review and are seen by the right people? How do you help reviewers catch problems in a system’s design? We’ve been iterating on our RFC review process and here’s wh