Square's third article in their developer productivity series covers platform-specific tooling, hardware upgrades, and key learnings from scaling engineering practices.
•Migrated 7,000+ repositories and 1,000+ teams from on-premises source control to GitHub, achieving up to 26% faster code checkout for Australian developers
•Built Square Console, an internal developer portal enabling app deployment in under 10 minutes
•Created a CLI tool "sq" that consolidated multiple tools and reduced a 23-page onboarding document to a single-command setup
•Transitioned mobile developers from Intel laptops to M1 iMacs, saving up to seven working days per year per developer
•Found that qualitative insights from biannual developer surveys are as critical as hard metrics like CI build times and branch stability
