Engineering Handbook & Playbooks

The public company handbook shipped with the docs — how the Activepieces team works. Source: docs/handbook/. (This is the published handbook, distinct from the internal Engineering area in this brain.)

Handbook

• Overview and Team.
• Hiring — hiring process, levels, team, compensation.
• Customer Support — overview, tone, Pylon workflow, handling requests.

Engineering onboarding

Onboarding checklist, how we work, on-call, downtime/incident, stack, release cycle. Work runs in one-week sprints shared publicly on GitHub; engineers drive their own sprint items. PR guidelines: open a draft PR early, review others proactively, one reviewer per PR, add it to the sprint, PR owner drafts test scenarios, break large features into continuously-merged small tasks.

Playbooks

Run EE, building for self-hosting, setup BetterStack, releases, canary deployment, queue metrics, infrastructure, database migration, structured logging, security advisory response, product announcement, frontend best practices, e2e tests, testing strategy, connect Claude to Chrome, AI engineering guide.

Postmortems & product

Postmortems (Redis/queue overload, infra upgrade — March 2026) and product interface-design notes.