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Getting started

Onboarding guide for new developers and operators joining the team.

Welcome

This guide walks you through the first day setup, the tools you'll use, and the people who can unblock you when things break.

Day one checklist

  1. Get your laptop, accounts, and 2FA set up via IT.
  2. Clone the monorepo and run npm install from the root.
  3. Read the Architecture overview (internal engineering reference).
  4. Skim the Database backups guide — it's a good intro to how the platform thinks about data safety.
  5. Pair with someone on a small change that touches a portal you'll work in.

Tools

  • GCP — most infra lives here.
  • GitHub — source of truth for code; CI/CD runs via Actions.
  • Slack — #engineering for announcements, #oncall for alerts.

Who to ask

  • Backend — the platform team owns the API.
  • Frontend — each portal has a code owner listed in CODEOWNERS.
  • Data — #data-platform for AlloyDB, Redis, and search-index questions.

Next steps

Once you've shipped your first PR, ping your buddy to walk you through the deployment runbook (internal engineering reference).