In an investigation for an on call issue, we followed a series of incorrect hypotheses before ultimately discovering a surprise at the end of the debugging rainbow.
This is the first post in a series of articles that goes over what it takes to build a growth platform that can power a SaaS company. We will start with Instrumentation and Analytics, the source of all user insights and the foundation of any growth platform.
Today, we're spotlighting Jocelyn Lindenger, who has been with Gusto for 3.5 years as an Engineering People Empowerer for the Run Payroll Experience team.
The application of analytics to people data empowers organizations to harness the full potential of their most important asset: their people.
I started with an audit of the model. I skimmed through each method, trying to see where to start. After the read through, I then looked at the database columns. I noticed that some of these had not been written to in years. I chose to clean up our database table before taking anything else.
At the end of December 2022, we’d see our largest spike in payments volume ever thanks to a year of tremendous customer growth and various payroll schedules aligning to fall on the same date. We wouldn’t be able to make it.
In this blog, we discuss scaling Gusto’s GraphQL schema using subgraphs, and the tooling to make that fast and easy for engineers.
5th post in the series! Today, we're spotlighting Ahsen Turksoy, who has been with Gusto for 9 months on the Benefits Automations team as part of Gusto Turkiye.
