All by Dan Na

More so than any other level of the management chain, front-line engineering managers are the most attuned to the day to day realities of shipping software. Giving them a collective voice to surface what works and what doesn’t is critical to understanding the efficacy of organizational policy and process.

In this blog post I’ll describe the system we built for delivering front-end translations at Squarespace. I’ll describe how translation code is written, extracted, and translated, the rationale behind some of our architectural decisions, and some of the functional and internationalization-specific lessons we learned along the way.