With the sun on our necks, summer salads freshly prepared and the kids entertained, our Summer BBQ was definitely one for the books.

This post is part one of a series on Engineering at Contentful. We hope to set the scene in this first post with how engineering has evolved from the earliest days—in many ways, typical of a technology startup—through to the current day with a company of over 100 people.

Building products that serve everybody is hard. This is especially true in the field of content management. Different content is best handled with different interfaces.

At Contentful we build a very flexible product which can be used for almost everything. Product feature always have to serve a broad audience. To help with specific needs we offer UI-extensions which help to tailor the authoring experience to exactly to your needs.

Visualizing content models is not always easy. But thanks to the contentful-graph package, getting a visual overview of your content models and how they connect to each other is easier than ever before.

We have created a CLI tool to make automation easier. You can use the tool to automate tasks like managing your delivery access tokens and creating new spaces. This is an early release and we'll continuously be adding more features.