Public Tech Company Handbooks Comprehensive directory of 90+ companies with public handbooks, tech stacks, and engineering documentation Full Company Handbooks (20) Comprehensive, GitLab-style handbooks covering operations, culture, policies, benefits, engineering, and more. Company URL Notes GitLab handbook.gitlab.com 13,800+ pages. The gold standard. Covers every aspect of the company. PostHog posthog.com/handbook 15 chapters. Radical transparency on strategy, compensation. Dedicated tech stack page: React, Django, Rust, ClickHouse, Kafka, Temporal. 37signals / Basecamp basecamp.com/handbook · GitHub 14 chapters + 9 appendices. No more than 40hrs/week, async-first. Stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire. Sourcegraph handbook.sourcegraph.com · GitHub Company strategy, team structure, engineering processes, all departments. Mattermost handbook.mattermost.com Full handbook for the open-source messaging platform. Fleet (FleetDM) fleetdm.com/handbook Inspired by GitLab. Covers company, engineering, marketing, people ops. Cal.com handbook.cal.com Open startup with public salaries, metrics, and full handbook. Airbyte handbook.airbyte.com Full handbook for the open-source data integration company. Remote.com handbook.remote.com Engineering career paths, detailed policies. Doist handbook.doist.com Makers of Todoist & Twist. First public handbook released Dec 2025. Remote since 2007. Rocket.Chat handbook.rocket.chat Open-source communications platform. Open Core Ventures handbook.opencoreventures.com GitLab CEO's venture studio. Includes handbook template for startups. Novu handbook.novu.co Open-source notification infrastructure. Public KPIs, roadmaps. Strapi handbook.strapi.io Open-source headless CMS. Human Made handbook.hmn.md WordPress enterprise agency. CivicActions guidebook.civicactions.com Government digital services. Forked from 18F handbook. TTS / 18F (GSA) handbook.tts.gsa.gov · GitHub US government Technology Transformation Services. Sparksuite handbook.sparksuite.com · GitHub Simple, clean employee handbook. Niteo GitHub Full company handbook on GitHub. Resend resend.com/handbook 35 posts on engineering, design, support, and marketing. Substantial Public Handbooks (18) Meaningful public documents — not as exhaustive as GitLab's, but still substantial references covering multiple aspects of the company. Company URL Notes Glitch glitch.com/~handbook Built as a Glitch app. Remixable. Bonusly GitHub The "un-handbook" — minimal and anti-bureaucratic. Clef GitHub Influential early open-source handbook. Frequently forked. Made Tech GitHub UK digital services agency. Mondora GitHub Italian B-Corp tech company. MUI (Material UI) Notion Open-source React component library operations. Warp Notion Modern terminal company. "How We Work" guide. hospitable Notion Applicant-facing handbook. sophilabs Notion Software development consultancy playbook. Loomio Cooperative loomio.coop Worker-owned cooperative handbook. DXW playbook.dxw.com UK digital agency playbook. Tidepool GitHub Open-source diabetes technology. Nylas GitHub Email/calendar API platform. CG Cookie GitHub 3D art education platform. HolidayExtras GitHub Travel tech company culture docs. Trussworks guide.truss.works Government technology consultancy. Hotjar Confluence Behavior analytics. Public Confluence pages. Armory go.armory.io/iterate Continuous deployment company. Culture Decks & Values (13) Public culture documentation — not a full handbook but provides significant insight into how these companies operate. Company URL Notes Netflix jobs.netflix.com/culture The original culture deck. 20M+ views. "Freedom & Responsibility." HubSpot hubspot.com/culture-code 128-slide Culture Code manifesto. Valve PDF Famous comic-book-style handbook. Flat hierarchy. Tesla Scribd The "Anti-Handbook Handbook" — intentionally brief. Buffer buffer.com/salaries · Open dashboard Public salaries since 2013. Open salary formula, revenue dashboard. Atlassian atlassian.com resources Career resources and team playbooks. Cleo meetcleo.com Public performance philosophy. Dropbox Virtual First Toolkit Open-source toolkit for distributed work. Trello Built as a Trello board Employee manual dogfooding their own product. Okta rewards.okta.com Public rewards and benefits documentation. Infinum infinum.com/handbook Digital agency handbook: dev practices, design, culture. HashiCorp works.hashicorp.com How HashiCorp works as a remote-first company. Osio Labs Blog post Split: public handbook (tenets) + private ops manual (sensitive). Engineering Handbooks & Tech Stacks (12) Companies that publish detailed engineering handbooks or dedicated documentation of their tech stack, architecture decisions, and tooling choices. Company URL Stack Highlights PostHog posthog.com/handbook/engineering/stack Frontend: React, Redux, Kea, Ant Design. Backend: Django, Rust. Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka. Orchestration: Celery, Temporal, Dagster. CI: GitHub Actions, Playwright, Pytest. Infobip GitBook handbook Full engineering handbook: tech stack & architecture, code & deploy practices, observability, self-managed teams, career dev. 40+ datacenters worldwide. Wise 2025 Stack Update Backend: Java, Kotlin. Frontend: Next.js (CRAB), React. Mobile: Kotlin/Compose, Swift, KMP. Data: MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, Iceberg. Infra: K8s (RKE2), Terraform, ArgoCD, Envoy. ML: SageMaker, MLflow, Ray Serve. LLMs: Claude, Bedrock, Gemini. Observability: LGTM stack. Artsy GitHub README React, Relay, TypeScript, GraphQL, Palette design system. Open Source by Default. Figma Engineering blog · Values Frontend: React, TypeScript, C++. Backend: Ruby, Go, TypeScript. LiveGraph (custom real-time DB). Microsoft ISE Engineering Playbook · GitHub Open-source playbook. React, TypeScript recommended. Covers design reviews, CI/CD, observability, testing. Raycast Public docs Vue.js, Gridsome, Vercel. Node.js, Express, Heroku. Linear, GitHub, Slack, Notion. dwyl GitHub PETAL stack: Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine.js, LiveView. PostgreSQL. Detailed rationale with diagrams. Spotify Engineering blog · Backstage Created Backstage (CNCF internal developer portal). Tech Radar plugin. Core principle: "The fewer technologies we are world class on, the faster we get." Canva canva.dev/engineering Backend: Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala. Frontend: React, TypeScript. Data: Snowflake (25+ PB, 90M queries/month). Uber Tech Stack Part I · Part II Python, Go, Java, Node.js. Schemaless (custom on MySQL), Riak, Cassandra. Docker, Mesos, Aurora. Mercury Works GitHub Pages Dev handbook: culture, code style, UX design, front-end, back-end. Best for stack documentation: PostHog (dedicated /engineering/stack page), Wise (periodic Tech Stack Update posts with 60+ technologies), Infobip (full GitBook engineering handbook), Uber (two-part blog series). Public Tech Radars (9) Tech radars visualize a company's technology choices across rings (Adopt, Trial, Assess, Hold). Living documents showing stack decisions and rationale. Company URL Notes ThoughtWorks thoughtworks.com/radar The original Tech Radar. Updated biannually. Industry-wide techniques, tools, platforms, languages. Zalando opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar · GitHub Open-sourced the visualization tool — used by Spotify, Porsche, and many others. Spotify Via Backstage Tech radar via Backstage plugin. Languages, frameworks, infrastructure, processes. Porsche Digital opensource.porsche.com Forked from AOE. Multiple radar instances across divisions. Einride einride.engineering Autonomous EV trucking company. AOE aoe.com/techradar Open-sourced their radar framework. v8 has 230 entries from 44 authors. Software AG techradar.softwareag.com Enterprise software company radar. Digitec Galaxus galaxus.ch/techradar Largest Swiss online retailer. Babbel tech.babbel.com Language learning platform. Methods, patterns, and tools. Build your own: Fork Zalando's tool or AOE's framework. Backstage has a tech-radar plugin. Engineering Playbooks & Frameworks (9) Public engineering-focused documentation — career frameworks, technical playbooks, and development practices. Company URL Notes thoughtbot thoughtbot.com/playbook Legendary playbook. Planning, designing, developing, running software. Monzo GitHub Open-source progression framework. Stack: Go, K8s, AWS, 2,800+ microservices. Fly.io fly.io/docs/hiring Working at Fly.io, company levels, team structure. Oxide Computer RFDs Public RFDs for transparent decision-making. Stack: Rust, custom hardware. Basecamp Communication basecamp.com/guides Internal communication practices guide. 37signals Dev dev.37signals.com "How we do, what we do." Stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, Kamal. Google Engineering Practices Eng Practices · SRE Book Code review guidelines. Also published SRE Book and Software Engineering at Google (free online). Platform Engineering Playbook platformengineeringplaybook.com K8s, Terraform, AWS, Docker, observability. 150+ technology resources. Ramp Builders builders.ramp.com Ramp's engineering blog. Deep fintech architecture posts. Engineering Blogs with Stack Documentation (10) Companies that publish extensive engineering blog posts documenting their architecture, stack decisions, and technical practices — goldmines for understanding real-world tech choices. Company URL What They Document Netflix netflixtechblog.com Java, Spring Boot, gRPC, Cassandra, GraphQL Federation. Chaos engineering (Chaos Monkey). Stripe stripe.com/blog/engineering Ruby, Java, Go, Scala. API design patterns. AI coding agent harness. Airbnb Airbnb Engineering React, TypeScript (migrated from JS via LLMs), Ruby on Rails, Java. Built Visx, Epoxy, Lottie. Shopify shopify.engineering Largest Rails app. React Native. AI-first engineering playbook (LLM proxy, 20% productivity gains). GitHub github.blog/engineering Ruby on Rails, Go, MySQL (Vitess), React. Actions architecture, Copilot internals. Intercom intercom.com/blog/engineering Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, React Native, Elasticsearch. Monzo monzo.com/blog Go, K8s, AWS, Cassandra, 2,800+ microservices. Migrations at scale. Atlassian atlassian.com/blog/technology Java, Kotlin, React, PostgreSQL, AWS. Twilio Twilio Engineering Cloud communications, API design, ML. Grafana Labs grafana.com/engineering Go, React, TypeScript. LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir). Find more: kilimchoi/engineering-blogs (500+ company blogs) and awesome-engineering (handbooks + blogs + repos). Curated Lists, Open Guides & Resources Best aggregation points for discovering even more handbooks and tech documentation. Resource URL What It Covers awesome-handbooks GitHub The definitive curated list. 34 companies and counting. cossmedia/company-handbooks GitHub Open culture company handbooks collection. awesome-open-company GitHub Open salaries, metrics, processes — not just handbooks. Handbook Directory Buttondown newsletter Newsletter collecting public (and leaked) handbooks. HN Thread Hacker News 100+ comments with handbook links from the community. kilimchoi/engineering-blogs GitHub 500+ company engineering blogs. Best for finding stack docs. awesome-engineering GitHub Engineering blogs, handbooks, and OSS repos from top companies. Tech Radar Examples workingsoftware.dev Catalog of public tech radars: ThoughtWorks, Zalando, Porsche, etc. Open Guides & Remote Work Resources Company URL Notes Zapier zapier.com/learn/remote-work 180-page Ultimate Guide to Remote Work. 800+ person distributed team. Automattic automattic.com 100% distributed (WordPress.com). Internal "Field Guide." Biannual transparency reports. Doist (remote work) doist.com/how-we-work Detailed remote-first documentation. Family benji.org/family-values Startup values and operating principles. Holloway holloway.com/g/remote-work The Holloway Guide to Remote Work — free reference. Research compiled June 6, 2026. Total: 90+ unique companies across 8 categories.