September 2021 Summaries

Laurent Perrin, co-founder and CTO of Front, shares the story behind the creation of the company, its growth, and security measures in an interview. Front is a communication platform that focuses on asynchronous collaboration. The team prioritized features based on customer feedback and quickly implemented a paywall after joining Y Combinator to ensure revenue. They use about 150 microservices for their architecture and have designed fallback infrastructures to handle high volumes of emails from clients. Front's security measures include being SOC II compliant, having a bug bounty program, and enforcing engineering methodologies across the company. The team hires engineers by leveraging their FR-US structure and focuses on maintaining an inclusive culture for transatlantic teams.

Axolo has released new features including code reviewing slots, snooze option for pull requests, approving from Slack, and mentions in GitHub. Users can now select Github Actions and deployment status notifications, create time slots for code reviews, tag a mention in GitHub as a tag in Slack, snooze a pull request to receive reminders, opt-in for repository name in channel titles, request changes directly from Slack, and self-onboard new team members. Additionally, the Axolo general channel is now optional for specific roles.