Tag: Engineering
4 posts tagged “Engineering”.
EngineeringFern Docs sites are now static, and much faster
Part 2 of making Fern faster: every Docs site is now prebuilt as static pages, so pages load faster, local preview is quicker, and publishing never slows a site down.
Sandeep Dinesh
SDKsWe tested AI agents with and without an SDK. The SDK won.
Claude agents built a Square payments integration on raw HTTP, with an OpenAPI Generator SDK, and with Square's Fern-generated SDK. With Square's SDK, 11 of 12 integrations worked in production. With the other two setups, 2 of 12 did.
Mathieu Legault
EngineeringHow we built Fern Agent
How we built Fern Agent: why we persisted conversations before it had a single tool, taught it that valid markdown isn't valid Fern, and secured write access to customer docs before it shipped.
Clay TondreauMathieu Legault
EngineeringOur largest docs sites now render ~6.4x faster
Our docs platform used to store each entire site as a single monolithic JSON object. Here's why that fell apart, and how we rebuilt storage so a one-page edit only touches the one page.
Sandeep Dinesh
Chris Broadfoot