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      The New Economics of Customer Service Guide

      Announcing our latest guide: ‘The New Economics of Customer Service’

      Declan Ivory

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      Beyond the AI hype: Understanding technological transformation with Benedict Evans

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      The New Economics of Customer Service Guide

      Announcing our latest guide: ‘The New Economics of Customer Service’

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      VP of Customer Support, Intercom

      Declan Ivory
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Evolving Intercom’s database infrastructure

Engineering 16 min read

Discover how Intercom is evolving its database infrastructure by migrating to Vitess and PlanetScale, unlocking greater scalability, reliability, and zero-downtime maintenance.

Ryan Sherlock

Director of Engineering, Intercom

Ryan Sherlock

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Intercom’s product principles: Start with the problem to achieve better solutions

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You’re not starting from scratch: How your transferable skills can help you get ahead in a new career

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Breaking down barriers to scale: How we’ve optimized Elasticsearch usage at Intercom

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Intercom’s product principles: Building in small steps to deliver maximum customer value

Intercom for Enterprise - Infrastructure & Scale

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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

We have truly global ambitions to bring our mission of making internet business personal to the biggest enterprise customers across the world. That means ensuring reliability by default, and the ability to accommodate massive scale as we grow.  

Oran O'Dowd

VP of Engineering, Intercom

Oran O'Dowd

Engineering 6 min read

10 engineering lessons from 6 years at Intercom

Intercom has a unique engineering and product culture – discover the main lessons around product and technology learned by one of our engineering directors during his time here.

Kuba Niechciał

Former Director, Engineering, Intercom

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Understanding AI

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Understanding AI: How we taught computers natural language

ChatGPT has revolutionized the world’s perception of artificial intelligence – but how did we get here exactly? Explore the remarkable advancements and milestones in natural language processing that led to this groundbreaking innovation.

Cathal Horan

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Intercom

Cathal Horan
Intercom for Enterprise availability

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Without rock solid availability, nothing else matters. That’s why we have been continually investing in our people, systems, and processes to maintain Intercom’s high standards of availability.

Oran O'Dowd

VP of Engineering, Intercom

Oran O'Dowd
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Engineering 2 min read

Why Intercom is supporting the Embroider Initiative to update Ember

Intercom is supporting the Embroider Initiative to build Ember’s next-generation build system – find out how and why we’re involved in this open-source software project.

Clíona de Róiste

Manager, Engineering, Intercom

Clíona de Róiste

Aaron Chambers

Staff Product Engineer, Intercom

Aaron Chambers

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a senior engineer apart

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How do we feel about being called ‘women in tech’?

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The importance of process: How we scale sustainable engineering processes at Intercom

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