Brian Scanlan
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Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe
Feb 2022
Calm's Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career
Apr 2021
10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)
Jan 2021
Building Intercom from home: Software delivery in challenging times
Apr 2020
Hope for the best or prepare for the worst? How we manage critical incidents at Intercom
Jul 2019
How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout
Apr 2018
Skyliner's Marc Hedlund on engineering management
Jun 2017
Finding your way from maker to manager
Jan 2017
A year of growth and change with Intercom
Aug 2015
Keeping Intercom up
Mar 2015
Elsewhere
How we use Claude Code today at Intercom
Mar 2026
DynamoDB vs. MongoDB: A Comparison and How to Choose
Apr 2021
How we optimize EC2 costs at Intercom
Mar 2021
Intercom went from skeptics to believers on AI
WorkOS
Interviewed at AWS re:Invent 2025 by WorkOS's Michael Grinich
YouTube
How AWS Empowers Intercom to Thrive as a Product-First Company
HackerNoon
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Intercom Case Study
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Intercom & Anthropic Success Story
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