Subject: A short guide to getting started with our cloud services

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Hey < new member >,

Welcome to Purpose in Play!

You should have a bunch of invites, password reset emails, and the like in your inbox. Some services need to be set up in person. I wanted to give you a little intro to each service we use at Purpose in Play. In no particular order:

• Google Cloud hosts all our servers, but it's rare that you'll have the need to interact with it. We follow a practice of providing minimum necessary permissions, but that doesn't mean we know ahead-of-time what that is — if you think you need more access than you have, just ask me! [engineering only]
• Google Workspace: To write, collaborate and get work done(Word & Excel).
• We use Google Drive for storage of documents & records. This includes PDFs of signed contracts, templates for new contracts, and assets such as logo PNGs and vector drawings.
• Figma to design & handoff designs and style guides with accurate specs to our developers
• Notion acts as our collective company brain.
• We collect and organize all personnel files through HiBob.
• Intercom for better customer relationships
• Sentry is an error tracking service; we log all our errors there and it can be invaluable when you're debugging a backend error. If you see a 500-class response, there's a record of it in Sentry with more information about what happened. [engineering only]
• Datadog aggregates all our logs from all our servers. Use this if you are trying to debug a backend behavior problem and Sentry isn't enough.
• Slack is where most of our day-to-day coordination happens.
• Forestry.io, empowers our marketing team with a rich content editing experience
• We keep shared passwords & other important secrets in 1password. We also encourage you to use 1password for any of your personal accounts; you can keep your passwords in a personal vault.

The last thing on this theme is: please use 2-factor authentication whenever it's available! We require it for Gmail accounts & pretty much all of our services. (you can even keep 2-factor codes in your 1password vault!)

A few other services we use require that we add your personal account to our "organization" — please send me your account name and I'll set you up:

• NPM — we have one tiny private module on NPM