Field Notes

After doing this for a while, we've found that most organizations are facing many of the same problems. Field Notes is where we break this problems down and propose real solutions, written so that both the people who own the product and the people who build it can understand.

Each note names one recurring problem, shows why the traditional approach falls apart, and lays out the standard way good teams solve it. Read one in a few minutes. Point your team at it. Stop paying to rediscover a problem that was solved years ago.

Changing your backend without breaking old versions of your app
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Backward compatibility

Changing your backend without breaking old versions of your app

The fix

One translation layer lets old and new apps talk to a single server, so you can change the backend without forcing anyone to update.

Product owners and their engineersAPIs and databasesPlain walkthrough plus a live demo
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Move your company to the cloud the easy way
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Cloud infrastructure

Move your company to the cloud the easy way

The fix

Describe your servers in a file instead of clicking them into existence, and every change gets a preview, a reviewer, a history, and a clean way to tear it all down.

Product owners and their engineersCloud setup and costPlain walkthrough plus a live demo
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When an uploaded document can give your AI orders
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AI security

When an uploaded document can give your AI orders

The fix

Wrap everything your assistant reads in a marker that changes every time, so a sentence hidden in a document cannot pass itself off as an instruction from you.

Product owners and their engineersAI assistants that read documents you did not writePlain walkthrough plus a live demo
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