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      Intercom Product Principles - Be Technically Conservative 2x

      How technical conservatism helps us scale faster and better

      Waheed El Miladi

      Staff Product Engineer, Intercom

      Waheed El Miladi
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      • Building high-performing Research and Data Science teams with clear career paths

      • Des Traynor talks startup strategy, product fundamentals and Enterprise SaaS on 20VC

      • Best practices for securing your Intercom workspace

      • Hola, bonjour, olá – say hello to new multilingual support in Intercom

      • Building a resilient system: Our journey to observability at Intercom

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      Next gen inbox

      Announcing Intercom’s new Inbox: The fastest and most powerful inbox designed for scale

      Alissa Tyrangiel

      Senior Product Manager, Intercom

      Alissa Tyrangiel
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      • Automated customer service: How to support your customers more efficiently and effectively

      • How to ask your customers great questions and gather actionable feedback – 3 key takeaways

      • 2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report: A roundtable on support strategies for the year ahead

      • How customer service chatbots are redefining customer engagement

      • 5 quick ways to improve your e-commerce customer experience

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      In-app messaging

      How to use in-app messaging to retain your best customers

      Lauren Cassidy

      Editor, Intercom

      Lauren Cassidy
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      • G2’s CMO Amanda Malko on the latest trends in software buying

      • What is first-party data?

      • How to ask your customers great questions and gather actionable feedback – 3 key takeaways

      • Mass market, nano media: The future of marketing is engagement

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      Live chat for sales

      From first touch to qualified lead: How to use live chat for sales

      Anna Murphy

      Editor, Intercom

      Anna Murphy
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      • Live chat examples and best practices for 2022

      • 4 ways to accelerate sales using the Intercom integration with HubSpot

      • Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up

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      Andrew Chen on how tech’s giants drive growth with network effects

      Des Traynor

      Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Intercom

      Des Traynor

      Liam Geraghty

      Audio Content Producer, Intercom

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      • Why customer engagement is the key to business growth in 2022 and beyond

      • Make the most of every customer interaction with the Engagement OS

      • Customer Support: Bridge the expectation gap in 2022

      • Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

      • From cost center to value driver: How support metrics are evolving

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      Solving for complex onboarding

      Solving for complex onboarding: Paving a path to value for your customers

      Tanner Elvidge

      Senior Product Manager, Intercom

      Tanner Elvidge
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      • Built for you: Improved Surveys, enriched push notifications, Australian data hosting, and more

      • Intercom on Product: Facing the tech slowdown

      • Built for you: New channels of communication, improved reporting, and much more

      • Intercom’s product principles: Following design fundamentals to leave space for innovation

      • Intercom’s product principles: How we focus on delivering outcomes

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      Is it time to update your engineering processes?

      Kuba Niechciał

      Director, Engineering, Intercom

      Kuba Niechciał
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      • Engineering at Intercom: Highlights from my first two years

      • Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe

      • Intercom presents Engineer Chats

      • Is your engineering team experiencing alert fatigue? Ask these 8 questions

      • Managing infrastructure costs as your company grows

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      Built For You series of product announcements

      Built for you: Two-way SMS, a next-generation Inbox, smarter bots, and more

      Orinna Weaver

      Manager, Product Marketing, Intercom

      Orinna Weaver
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      • Announcing Intercom’s new Inbox: The fastest and most powerful inbox designed for scale

      • Built for you: Improved Surveys, enriched push notifications, Australian data hosting, and more

      • Built for you: New channels of communication, improved reporting, and much more

      • Atlassian and Coda on creating personalized customer experiences at scale

      • Built for you: Next-generation surveys, ditching hold times with Switch, and more

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      Stark’s CEO Cat Noone on designing accessible products

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Intercom Security best practices

Engineering 4 min read

Best practices for securing your Intercom workspace

How do you keep your business secure and also build and maintain the trust of your customers? Learn how to best secure your Intercom workspace and ensure you keep that data safe.

Penny Gray

Senior Technical Program Manager, Intercom

Penny Gray
Improving Observability at Intercom

Engineering 9 min read

Building a resilient system: Our journey to observability at Intercom

At Intercom we focus on customer experience above all – our service’s availability and performance is our top priority. That requires a strong culture of observability across our teams and systems.

Kesha Mykhailov

Staff Product Engineer, Intercom

Kesha Mykhailov

News & Updates 3 min read

Calling future software engineers: Learn about UL’s equity, diversity and inclusion scholarship, funded by Intercom

Intercom is excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering course.

Niamh O'Connor

Brand Editor, Intercom

Niamh O'Connor
Intercom for Enterprise - Infrastructure & Scale

Engineering 5 min read

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

Senior Director of Engineering, Intercom

Oran O'Dowd
Intercom for Enterprise availability

Engineering 5 min read

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

Senior Director of Engineering, Intercom

Oran O'Dowd

Engineering 19 min listen

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

The phrase “women in tech” has become a catch-all label, used to describe everything from the problem, to the solution, to the community. But what does it mean for the women working at Intercom?

Niamh O'Connor

Brand Editor, Intercom

Niamh O'Connor

Liam Geraghty

Audio Content Producer, Intercom

Liam Geraghty
european data hosting

News & Updates 5 min read

Introducing Intercom’s Regional Data Hosting program

We’re delighted to announce that we now offer European data hosting – allowing your most important data to remain entirely in Europe

Oran O'Dowd

Senior Director of Engineering, Intercom

Oran O'Dowd

Engineering 4 min read

Supercharge your learning with the 15-minute rule

When you encounter a problem, you have two choices – figure it out for yourself, or ask for help. Both have benefits, and drawbacks. Follow the 15-minute rule to strike a balance between the two.

Martin Brennan

Former Product Engineer, Intercom

Martin Brennan

Engineering 6 min read

5 ways engineers can make a positive impact outside the code editor

Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. But not all problems are solved in the code editor.

Waheed El Miladi

Staff Product Engineer, Intercom

Waheed El Miladi
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